More rubbish. Yes, some pensioners wallow in their affluence, I despair of them as much as anyone, but it is NOT reasonable to generalise. When I started school we had a house with no electricity and no running water, I wonder how people today could cope with that, but we did, and there are many other Pythonesque "We had it tough" things i could add. Holidays were a week in the UK once a year, not jetting off abroad just for stag and hen parties, but no, I would hold back on assuming that ALL youngsters do that, or that they're ALL loud and disruptive on flights, because it is NOT REASONABLE TO GENERALISE.
Many youngsters are lovely, lively, hard working considerate people. In fact quite similar to how a lot of pensioners were in their younger years, just living in different times. As for houses, I didn't expect a right to buy a house on my wages, I did it by spending many years tolerating having lodgers in my own house in order to help to pay the mortgage. I would have liked a job on the railways as it was what I really wanted to do, and it better paid than the job I took too, but there was so much post-Beeching re-deployment going on in the 1970s that it was just too difficult for many to get into the industry.
I repeat, yes some pensioners might be greedy, but a whole lot of people are thinking that rail workers are greedy when compared to care workers (for example). If care workers were to adopt the strike attitude as some have suggested, then what would those rail workers who need urgent hospital care for themselves or family members, have to say about being abandoned to their own devices?
The situations are different, this should be recognised, but it's wrong and unfair to generalise. I have some sympathy with rail workers, but I have to say it's limited when so many workers in other sectors are cutting back on their luxuries and accepting that the Pandemic and Ukraine situations have inevitable adverse consequences which affect us all.