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THURSDAY, 9 MAY 1963
You'll never get on the property ladder.
The only plot you'll ever own is two metres deep, and there's a waiting list.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- In three generations, nobody will remember your name. You don't know your great-grandmother's, so…
- Your 5am routine went viral. You did it once, filmed it, and have slept…
- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
- Core collaboration days started as Tuesday. They now include Wednesday, Thursday, a Friday that's…
- You are a brief arrangement of atoms that learned to worry about emails.
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- The weekend is two days long. Monday is nine emotional days long, and you're…
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