The Precariat

I can see this life for exactly what it is. I can now, anyway. Were walkin a knife edge. One slip, one tiny slip an we fall. An theres a fuck of a long way to falleven for us. An were kept thereon the knife edgebecause they can tell yer which way tgo. Forward or down. Fins bright. Some would say gifted. But school isnt going well. While he is busy coping with his mums depression and his younger brothers drug problem, he can feel his future slipping away. The few jobs that are available in North London are part-time or temporary, and Fin knows his future will be a life of unstable pay, minimal social security benefits, no pension and eroding health care. He is the uture of the emerging major class living precarious lives at the mercy of the one percent: The Precariat. With his world collapsing slowly around him, Fin finds hope and attraction with the girl at the fried chicken drive-through window. But even she cant offer him a way out. Fin makes one final desperate bid to take control over the future by giving his brother the chance to turn his life around