The Unfulfilled Zillennial

Exploring the world of work and wealth, fighting for change in 'business as usual'

  • Weren’t we supposed to be working 15 hour weeks by now?

    It was in Kate Raworth’s Donut Economics that I learned John Maynard Keynes had predicted that by 2030 we would have championed technological advances and shared the benefits amongst us to reduce our working week to 15 hours. We’ve got 6 years and a LONG way to go…. The idea was that technological advances would…

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  • Race to the bottom hits workers hardest

    By now I don’t need to tell you that we’re in a cost-of-living crisis. I saw a Facebook reel the other day, in which the creator stated her belief that we are seeing the last generation of great estate sales with beautiful, quality furniture. She wrote that young people do not value quality, high-end pieces…

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  • The Paradox of the Return to Office Mandate

    What’s your work target this year? Is it growth?  Growth of the top line, the profit margin, maybe the client list?  If you work in business, it’s not a shot in the dark to guess its growth: growth has been the key measure of economic success since John F Kennedy won his 1960 election bid…

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  • Are Influencers the modern day Opiate of the people?

    First things first: what is an Influencer? Oxford Languages define an influencer as “a person with the ability to influence potential buyers of a product or service by promoting or recommending the items on social media”. Up to 72% of Gen Zers and Millennials likely follow at least 1 such influencer on social media. ‘Opiate…

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  • The Price of a Yachtie’s Life

    It’s been reported that last week a 26 year old South African woman died whilst working as a stewardess on board a superyacht that was docked in Nice. The young woman is alleged to have fallen down some stairs and fatally injured her spine.  I found out about this because somebody posted a JustGiving page…

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  • Am I becoming an anti-capitalist?

    A few weeks ago I was on the phone with my friend RG, setting the world to rights and energetically discussing the sorry state of the UK economy and our growing apathy towards politics and government management of the economy. We haven’t seen each other in person in over a year, and she remarked that…

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