Tony Sinclair had worked all his life – but still found himself sleeping rough. Then even his tent was taken away from him.

In a way, 70-year-old Tony Sinclair was lucky to be in his tent on the day last year when the police arrived. The canvas that kept him from the elements ended up in the bin, but, unlike several of his neighbours, he was able to save his most important possessions from going the same way.

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    5 months ago

    Look at that UK doing America right!

    Should a fuxking worked harder, free loader!!!

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    All of this is coming to the whole of Europe, with an ageing population and not reformed pension systems, you better start investing now and hope the stock market doesn’t go the drain.

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      Ah, yes, I had forgotten I should have invested when my rent was 100€ higher than my income.

      Like, I mean, it is good advice for some people at the individual level. Specifically, those who can afford it. But an issue of this magnitude requires political, collective solutions.

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        5 months ago

        They’re talking about boomers. That’s where the money got stuck

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          About 20-30% of boomer got retirement money.

          However, most of the money is locked up by top 1-3% which is mostly boomer and up.

          Either way, they shouldn’t buy buy stocks at this point when US treasuries printing 5+%

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              Did you read what I wrote?

              Anywya, I do my own analysis based on data released by the federal reserve along with bls reports for income distributions. Not some shiti twatter shit post.

              there are lots of very comfortable Millennials

              Nobody said there werent affluent millenials, who mostly who come from rich families lol

              Also “lots” modifier has no meaning without data.