![]() Yet there’s another, very real intergenerational divide that gets far fewer headlines and should worry us equally. We all understand that progress is not zero sum – a trade-off in which one group succeeds and another necessarily fails It’s not the case across generations within families, and it’s not the case more broadly either. We all understand that progress is not zero-sum – a trade-off in which one group succeeds and another necessarily fails. And I regularly hear older people express sympathy for how tough younger people have it these days. Social care for older people is the second highest consumer concern of 18- to 34-year-olds. ![]() Almost eight in 10 of those aged 18-24 and the over-65s want life to slow down. Older and younger people feel equally overwhelmed by the dominance of new technology. While many intergenerational differences persist, there are also areas of commonality.Both groups aspire to good relationships, health, learning and independence. But while there is clearly a growing generational gap, commentary that paints a picture of different generations economically pitted against each other lacks the nuance of real life. And if you were born into ubiquitous technology, from the 90s onwards, that also shapes how you behave. If you fought a war or lost family to the Blitz, that impacts your world view. Of course the era in which you were born and came of age matters. This has further fuelled the narrative of Britain’s divided generations. In 2010, there was an 11 percentage-point gap between levels of Conservative support in the over-65s and those aged 25-34 by 2017 that gap had risen to a whopping 34 points. ![]() Two polarising general elections and one hostile EU referendum later, that generational opportunity gulf has found loud expression at the ballot box, with the political outlooks of young and old apparently diverging sharply.
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