Against the boomers we will not live better

Only from shortsightedness can resentment against retirees and the elderly incubate. boomers in general, painting them as privileged beneficiaries of a splendid past of generous salaries and an opulent future assured thanks to owning an apartment and a juicy pension, reduced to the sentence "they have lived better than their parents."

You can extend the discussion as much as you like, but those born between the late fifties and mid-seventies are the children and grandchildren of a civil war, and if they lived in a period of growth and consumption it is because, logically, they came from below everything. But, apart from all those who had to emigrate to survive, and the fact that they were all born during a dictatorship, ask older people if it was easy for them to make ends meet (I can still hear my mother ruminating that "for every peseta, I have to make two") and you will find that life has never been easy for any of them.

The cause of this generational resentment is quite evident: the hopelessness of a dead future is spreading among young people, who see no material way to pursue their life plans, especially due to the impossible access to affordable housing with the salaries they earn. And there we are together, regardless of age. Those who fight for a decent pension today are paving the way for tomorrow's. We do not turn the debate into a contest of merits and generational grievances, because apart from being unfair to those who have worked all their lives and made possible the welfare state we still enjoy, it is precisely what the capital that moves the world expects: a discussion between the impoverished to see who lives better.