Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth — The Missing Rungs of Adulthood

What if Britain’s youth crisis is not a failure of ambition, but the result of a society that removed stable paths to adulthood while calling the result personal choice?Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.Using Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik as the lens, this episode investigates how Britain shifted housing costs, job insecurity, educational debt, welfare risk, and political neglect onto younger generations.The systems-level question is not whether young people are trying hard enough. It is whether the structures that once supported adulthood — affordable homes, stable work, paid training, public investment, and political responsiveness — have weakened while responsibility has been individualised.The central mechanisms include short-term political incentives, housing scarcity, workfare, unpaid labour, austerity, weakened youth representation, and feedback loops that turn structural insecurity into private self-blame.📺 Watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/GcRU2ZSSoJs❤️ Support / Episode Post on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/CrisisinPerception/posts/jilted-how-has-163545380?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkIf these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible.If you value systems-level analysis like this, please follow, rate, and share the project.This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.