Lonewolves wrote:
Cavey wrote:
presumably because you were pissed that I'd proved that mean, cost-of-living adjusted incomes among the working - including the early 20s - hadn't just increased from the mid 70s and early 80s as I'd originally claimed - but actually rocketed in fact, as according to the ONS
Mate, you're just embarrassing yourself now. You said that in response to his initial claim that millennials had less *disposable income* than your generation, but
that wasn't ever in question. It was totally irrelevant as a statistic on its own and proving it had no point.
You offered nothing that disproved that initial statement.
In your mind, I don't doubt you believe that. Sadly the reality, though, is that I was specifically talking about people in their early 20s (say, 21-25) and for them, it is inarguably the case, as according to the ONS info that I posted, that average incomes among the working, fully adjusted for cost of living, have increased, and not even by just a few % either. So this means that people in those age groups will likely have more money in their pocket e.g. to spend on luxury items like cars, than ever their forebears in the mid 70s or early 80s did. That's simply a fact, and no amount of "yeah but house prices" is going to change that. (People in their early 20s were hardly buying houses in their droves in the mid 70s or early 80s, not least because credit was *unbelievably* much harder to get than it is now, especially mortgages, but it's an irrelevance to my argument about buying cars. Have you seen the year-on-year *record* new car UK registrations? I mean apart from the compelling ONS data, how do you suppose that happens FFS?)
I really don't have the time to trot through the same old crap yet again (In another thread), I got things to do. As I said at the time, either believe, or don't believe - if it's the latter, I really can't help you.
But, coming back with counter-arguments, however irrelevant or bad is one thing, that I can deal with. Just trolling saying how crap I am without offering any actual counterargument at all is quite another, and as I've said, I feel entirely comfortable in responding (very successfully) accordingly.
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