The debate on the opportunities of Spanish youth has intensified in recent years, marked by the Housing access difficultywork precariousness and a growing public debt. In this framework, the voices of previous generations They provide a critical perspective on the differences in the living conditions between those who are young today and who were in previous decades.
Alfonso Ortega, retiree and old antiquarian, considers that the current youth faces a much more adverse panorama than previously lived. “From young people I think they are wonderful because there is nothing better than youth,” he explains, but adds that “they do not have the opportunities we have had because now to make a family to young people it will be totally impossible.”
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In your analysis for social networks of MIRLOTVOrtega points out the Labor precariousness and lack of access to housing as the main obstacles to emancipation: “As much as one wants a woman, he cannot live with her due to lack of economy, lack of opportunities, lack of everything.”
In his opinion, the situation is aggravated by the weight of the public debtthat, he says, will fall on the youngest: “The youth that is now will have to pay the debt of an irresponsible government or irresponsible governments and they will not have the opportunity to have a home or have a good job.”
Ortega indicates that the debt “instead of reducing it, is increasingly broad” and that young people “are not guilty of what is being misguided.” The retiree maintains that those who have greater talent and initiative are forced to emigrate: “He who leaves intelligent and leaves entrepreneur has to go to work outside Spain because there are no opportunities for them here.”
The work seen from retirement
For his part, his friend Alfonso Cervera, also retired and extrabajador of the EMT of Valencia, offers a more moderate vision of his own living conditions. “He kept me, but nothing more,” he recalls when asked about his salary when he was an active worker.
Ortega, on the other hand, acknowledges that during his stage his income was irregular: “A few months he lost more money than others and some fair that he earned more and with that he kept me”, although he insists that “no” has been able to live well with what he earned.
The statements of both reflect the perception, Shared by citizensthat the new generations face a horizon marked by more uncertainty, both work and personally, than the one who faced those who preceded them.