Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap

Its a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but dont blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the marketIntergenerational relations, or lack of them, is a subject Ive been thinking about, on and off, since the financial crisis. Ive read up on it, too - things such as the Institute for Fiscal Studies report on intergenerational earnings mobility, which is wonky but full of fascinating information which needs some parsing. (Example: While the educatio...