Poet, author, & bookseller still tweeting about creatives, libraries, fair pay, human rights, ethics, allotments & growing veg. Tweets own opinions. she/her
Sep 27, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
40 years ago I entered the job market and by the time I was 22 I was working in a library and with my husband (who was a barber) we earned enough to have a mortgage that was 3 times our combined salary.
Just did a search and the same jobs now would earn almost exactly the same money, but to buy a house you’d need over 9 times salary and the bills are roughly 4 times what we paid. It sure as hell ain’t Netflix and avocado on toast that’s keeping young folk off the property ladder
