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Feeling the pinch? Cheer up – affluence made us miserable

Last week a friend told me she had received more than 200 applications for a junior job in an audio-visual unit in an advertising agency, salary £12,000, location: London.

With graduates spewing out of universities in unprecedented numbers and with unprecedented levels of debt, there is already an extreme shortage of jobs for the young. And we ain’t seen nothing yet.