At the moment thousands of young people are adding to the list of complaints against their parents, which we have all had and whoever says that they are not lying, the fact of having conceived them too early. Let’s say that a young person is 17 years old and doing the math: in the event that the PSOE wins, that Sumar is needed for the same, that they are given ministries of real numbers, and that universal inheritance ends up being approved, no they would arrive in time to be included, even if it is paid at 23. That hurts.
What do the networks say? Well, the first thing that draws attention is that the majority of those who speak out about this are closer to the other inheritance, that of retirement, than to the 20,000 euros of the wing. Maybe because they think they are the ones who will end up paying them? No, the opinions of 50-year-olds are not accepted as young. No, neither do the 40s.
In other words, either young people don’t quite believe it, or they don’t use Twitter as much as we’d like to think. Or that in high school, which is where the supposed future beneficiaries now go, they are with something else. Because the hyped-up millennials are also late to this, although they seem to know the generational currency shift very well and are already comparing the 10.5 billion or so to cover the thing with the increase in the CPI for pensioners.
We haven’t read it on the networks, but from here we want to call for calm: given that we are one of the countries with the lowest birth rate in the world, this universal inheritance will be coming out cheaper every year, for the simple reason that fewer and fewer will be called upon to collect it. Perhaps you can start thinking about revaluing it with the CPI, like pensions, which, on the contrary, will not stop growing.
At this point, let Twitter be divided between those who say we don’t have the means to pay the inheritance and those who ask to raise taxes, those who accuse Yolanda Díaz of fostering generations in the cold and those who continue to insist on the meritocracy, all this does not seem to touch the bottom of the question: that a day will come when the last Spaniard turns 18 and receives, with the pasta and the suffrage, another suffrage: that of the retirements of the remaining.
In the midst of so much political battle, a sensible tweet emerges from time to time: what if more was invested in preventing what causes young people to enter the adult world from a position of disadvantage? It would be more expensive but more useful than heritage and Interrail and cultural good and the two hard-boiled eggs that all programs add at the last minute, in a Marx attitude, you know which one.
