Recession Lifestyle Changes for 2009
What’s the end of the noughties going to be like then? Bread queues? Riots? We’ve only got history to go by…
What recession felt like in thirties:
– Hundreds of sailors in the Royal Navy in Invergordon mutiny for two days over pay cuts, refusing to take their battleships to sea.
– Orwell reports on the dire state of north England, in The Road to Wigan Pier, where he sees that “Several hundred men risk their lives and several hundred women scrabble in the mud for hours… searching eagerly for tiny chips of coal in slagheaps so they could heat their own homes. For them, this arduously-gained ‘free’ coal was more important almost than food.”
– Soup kitchen’s open up and down the country.
What recession will feel like in the noughties:
– Hundreds of frivolous youth charities and ‘city initiatives’ pop up as bankers try and assuage their guilt at having destroyed an entire generations prospects of gaining employment.
– ‘Polemanian builders’ emerge as a new chameleonic social class: they are Romanians pretending to be Polish builders now all the Poles have jumped ship and gone home.
– Poorly executed biodynamic farming and groovy tree house living boom as previously time poor financiers adapt their elitism to life amongst the idle classes.
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | October 12, 2008 2:20AM |
October 16th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
‘Hundreds of frivolous youth charities and ‘city initiatives’ pop up as bankers try and assuage their guilt at having destroyed an entire generations prospects of gaining employment.’
So true.
After the cocaine has run out and they’ve had the
Long Dark Night of the Sofa some of them will feel compelled to start rare breed farming and the others will transmute guilt into smugness setting up ‘interfaces’ between yoof and bizznez.
SBW
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