THE QUESTION
Why is it harder to get by than it was for our parents?
Group cards you judge alike. Groups organise reading; they decide nothing.
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Clusters form from similarity, names come last
Canonical order: link pairs of ideas you judge similar — links are symmetric (A~B is B~A; direction never matters) and a tie holds once 2 members make it.
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Links are symmetric — A~B is B~A. Clusters are the groups that emerge from held ties, and only a formed cluster can be named, by a person. Your own links carry a ✕ to withdraw; you cannot remove someone else's. Clusters organise the wall and never gate the vote — two cards making the same CLAIM are a merge back in Clarify.
Links and names are made while Cluster is live; the steward’s ← reopens it.
Sick pay does not start until the fourth day
cluster 1
Nothing said yet.
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Nobody who writes about this has ever waited for a benefit decision
~ Nobody in my family h…Nobody in my family has ever had a pension that promised anything (19)
Nobody in my family has ever had a pension that promised anything
~ Nobody who writes abo…Nobody who writes about this has ever waited for a benefit decision (19)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Sick pay does not start until the fourth day
~ One illness turns int…One illness turns into an arrears letter (21)
One illness turns into an arrears letter
~ Sick pay does not sta…Sick pay does not start until the fourth day (21)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
The things that used to be bought once are now rented forever
~ What used to be a job…What used to be a job is now a series of contracts (15)
What used to be a job is now a series of contracts
~ The things that used …The things that used to be bought once are now rented forever (15)
· not yet clustered (28)
The bank says we cannot afford what we already pay
~ The unexpected thing …The unexpected thing is expected and we still cannot budget for it (13)
~ They think we spend t…They think we spend too much and cannot see what things cost (14)
~ We pay more in rent t…We pay more in rent than the mortgage on the same flat would be (18)
The unexpected thing is expected and we still cannot budget for it
~ The bank says we cann…The bank says we cannot afford what we already pay (13)
~ They think we spend t…They think we spend too much and cannot see what things cost (16)
The hours are flexible for the employer and fixed for me
Retirement is a word for a thing that happened to my grandparents
Working more hours moved us into losing more support
The benefit that would help takes five weeks to arrive
Being told the economy is growing is its own insult
There is no month without something unexpected
Buying the cheap one twice costs more than the good one once
~ Childcare costs more …Childcare costs more than the smaller salary (19)
~ We pay more in rent t…We pay more in rent than the mortgage on the same flat would be (17)
Both of us work and neither of us can be ill
A single wage no longer supports a household
My children will not live where they grew up
We are one boiler away from a crisis
Assets rose faster than wages for four decades
~ The deposit rises fas…The deposit rises faster than we can save toward it (14)
The system is designed so that trying harder changes little
There is no chemist, no bank and no bus after six
My parents bought a house on one wage at my age
They think we spend too much and cannot see what things cost
~ The unexpected thing …The unexpected thing is expected and we still cannot budget for it (16)
~ The bank says we cann…The bank says we cannot afford what we already pay (14)
The village school closed and the bus was cut in the same year
Everything is a subscription now, including the car
Every form assumes a household that is nothing like mine
Childcare costs more than the smaller salary
~ We pay more in rent t…We pay more in rent than the mortgage on the same flat would be (18)
~ Buying the cheap one …Buying the cheap one twice costs more than the good one once (19)
You are means-tested on last year while living in this one
Being poor is expensive in ways that do not show in a price index
I find out my shifts nine days before, so I cannot take a second job
You pay more over five years and own nothing at the end
~ We pay more in rent t…We pay more in rent than the mortgage on the same flat would be (14)
The deposit rises faster than we can save toward it
~ We pay more in rent t…We pay more in rent than the mortgage on the same flat would be (14)
~ Assets rose faster th…Assets rose faster than wages for four decades (14)
We pay more in rent than the mortgage on the same flat would be