Lost Generation

We are the best-prepared generation in the history of Southern Europe. Yet we were sold a future that does not exist here. We inherited the deindustrialization and touristification of our countries. European policies centered the economic activity of these southern countries around the tertiary sector, turning them into tourist resorts for the northern countries which have industry and a solid flourishing economy. These policies have brought with them a precipitous increase in job instability, a wealth gap and gentrification. This last phenomenon has caused families to lose their homes and made housing inaccessible to young people, the lost generation that is living between two enormous crises. Entire families are unemployed, many of them barely surviving thanks to their grandparents' low pensions. Others are stressed, trying to make ends meet and some are unable to. We have failed to achieve the promised welfare state. Instead, we witness and experience increasing misery every day.