Young people are continuing to bear the brunt of rising interest rates and rent while older Australians are still splashing out, new spending data indicates.
Yeah, I get that there’s a real issue now, mostly driven by wage stagnation, but younger people have always had to do more being tightening than older people, at least as long as I’ve been alive. When I first got married, we had to buy the cheapest food we could while my parents and their friends were going to Hawaii, and that was in the 80s.
“Interest rates mostly hurt people who have big loans” is news now?
Yeah, I get that there’s a real issue now, mostly driven by wage stagnation, but younger people have always had to do more being tightening than older people, at least as long as I’ve been alive. When I first got married, we had to buy the cheapest food we could while my parents and their friends were going to Hawaii, and that was in the 80s.