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Why is it harder to get by than it was for our parents?

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structuresobstacles
opened08 Sep 2026
who answered30 people in 2 group(s) · participant: 30
wrote blindnot recorded
claims34 written, 20 structured
links certified18
rooms on this question3 · counts toward the shared map
decided at75% of the votes cast
sealedyes, members forgotten
What it rests on
  • Assets rose faster than wages for four decades
  • Being poor is expensive in ways that do not show in a price index
  • The system is designed so that trying harder changes little
  • One illness turns into an arrears letter
  • Everything is a subscription now, including the car
  • There is no month without something unexpected
What it could not settle
Published as contested, never recorded as a no.
  • none: every pair the room reached was settled
What was predicted to follow
Written after the map settled. Nobody voted on it.
  • Sick pay from the first day — expected: going to work ill stops being the cheaper option — due 25 Sep 2027
What the room would do
Each action judged against each root cause, at three quarters of the votes cast.

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