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Why Working Hard No Longer Feels Like Enough | FUNdamental Fridays
10 minutes Posted Jun 19, 2026 at 2:00 am.
Welcome back to Friday Fundamentals
Evan’s hill to die on
Why the intergenerational equality debate feels off
The old promise: work hard and get ahead
Why education used to deliver a bigger payoff
What changed after the GFC
HELP debt, inflation and the cost of getting ahead
Why the incentive structure feels broken
Is the government too reliant on one type of tax revenue?
Why this debate is bigger than CGT and negative gearing
Could tax bracket indexation help?
Younger workers, older wealth and structural imbalance
Final thoughts and what actually needs fixing
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In this Friday Fundamentals episode, Shane and Evan Lucas unpack a much bigger issue than the usual property or tax headline: has the social contract around work, education and getting ahead been broken? Evan argues that the current debate around intergenerational inequality is focusing too heavily on the margins while missing the core problem. For many Australians, the traditional path of studying hard, working hard, and moving forward financially does not feel as reliable as it once did. Ed...