So anna, mum and I were once watching tv. On it a woman was talking about how young people shouldn't be able to be as involved in politics as they've never had a mortgage. Well this certainly did not go down well with us. This woman, about the same age as my mum, must have no idea what the future looks like for me and my generation, and not to mention our present. So I haven't got a mortgage, but i do face a large HEX debt, something whitlam allowed her to never have to worry about. I may not have a mortgage, this is true and I probably wont ever have one either as housing affordability for our generation is and will be horrendous. Yes I do not have a mortgage, she is right, therefore I have no pressing issues in my life? Youth problems, getting work, getting into and affording uni, affording a house... ect.
But really thats not what worries my generation. So I don't have a mortgage, but I will be living to see the effects of climate change, this woman will not. I will bring children into a world that deserves to be looked after, but under the rule of "those with mortgages" it is not.
My generation is part of a global community, this baby boomer "mortgage having" generation is not. These mortgage havers are too busy worry about there mortgages to worry about more pressing issues; poverty, 250 million people in slavery, the millions in war torn regions of the earth. This mortgage generation never grew up with the ability to see these people, so they don't. My generation can see these people.
I wont be able to vote this year. But hey, what would I know about anything? I dont have a MORTGAGE
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