Life passing by people in their 30s

Strange then, that the majority of people working in these multiationals in Dublin, Cork, Galway etc are actually irish...

There is nothing stopping any of us in ireland working for any multinational, anywhere in the world.

We have the ability to do anything we set our mind to and one of the best education systems in the world, to boot.

Its not the be all and end all, but it certainly makes for a better calibre of public services and general living standards.

We have grown too quickly in population and without the commensurate investment in infrastrucutre.

But the solution to this problem isnt to turn our backs on progress and prosperity.

We need to level up, not level down.

Find new ways to deliver more housing, invest more in infrastrucutre and increased services that align with our population growth.

It can be done.

I have no college degree and work for the last 15 years in fintech currently earning 6 figures. I started at the bottom as I had no degree but apart from that there is no obstacle to anyone working in a multinational. And I'm Irish too btw, born and bred.

I dated a girl once that had a level 8 degree from DCU and was working part time in Penneys and living at home. That was over a decade ago and she's still working there as far as I know (the mrs saw her recently enough).

Now which of us represents which demographic, and which brought better value for the taxpayer spend on our education? And who likely claims that the economy doesnt work for them, they have a degree but cant buy a house etc.

Reality doesnt always equate to your little bubble. There's clearly a move to populism of the left and that's why a contrarian voice like SF are scoring highly amongst younger voters. However corelation doesnt equate to causation and I don't believe that the alleged housing crisis is causing it. I actually think what is causing it is a schism between two irelands. One where folks work full time and grew up in a house where both parents worked, and those folks have money. Then the other ireland who grew up in welfare houses and now don't work and while their living expenditure and housing costs are provided for from the taxtake , they are lacking sufficient spending money that their friend group in school or "the house down the road" may have. We're a nation of begrudgers, and I think this, rather than the housing "crisis" is the problem.

The main cohort looking to continue their free lunch are those that the Americans would refer to as "boomers".

There have been some amounts of ladders pulled up since they got their mitts on things.

You only have to go back to the previous page to the poster who still thinks that the normal expectation is that they can get a loan, outbid someone else for a property, and then sit back and have that other person pay for all the first persons tax, interest, and capital repayments for that loan.

or the genuis above who thinks anyone who cant get a house works part time in Pennys. The circle Im friends in are teachers, nurses, a barrister, sna's, recruiters, hr staff, marketing and PR staff and a freelance journalist at a well read national paper. They all either live at home or in house shares because single people cannot buy in this market unless they are in the very top multinational tech or finance jobs. Yet this is just ignored for what ever reason by boomers because they have an iphone

We can live in a more sustainable way without reducing our population.

As a footnote; Irelands population is tiny anyway.

We can grow economically in a sustainable way and of course all major companies have sustainability targets and these will be common place for all businesses in the future.

Economic Growth is a fact of life. Show me a western country that doesnt measure success by that metric.

We live in a Capitalist world and that wont change.

But we can grow in a sustainable way.

and 90% dont go to college, around 50% of school leavers end up graduating with a level 8 degree

If he hadn't pis$ed the 10 pounds away up against a wall in Waterford, he probably could have used it to buy himself a decent house in the middle of the town at the time.

That is the problem. A lot of the best people I worked with didn't have at least a 2:1 degree to get in the door now.

They wouldn't have a chance now if they were starting out. Arguments with hr about criteria not filled. Rubbish.

I'm a firm believer that let the hiring manager decide who goes forward. I like experience and a chat interview initially.

It's pr bs.