It's not that anyone's breakfast was getting stuck this morning, but unemployment and inflation have shown their faces, and if the war in Iran continues, they will end up showing their whole face. The rising cost of living is a fact and prospects are for the worse, with prophecies of energy shock and disruption of international trade, including food.
If we talk about the right to healthcare, education, mobility, and housing – no joke –, we have teachers announcing strikes, doctors too, trains are going by bus, and the real estate market continues to push out people who earn a good salary and couples with two salaries who, thirty years ago – and let alone forty – would have found an affordable mortgage or a reasonable rent. In the case of the real estate sector, all the elements of the perfect storm have occurred, the first of which is a shortage of housing due to planning oversight. Money from investment funds has poured into the sector, and on top of that, the population has grown at a pace that strains all seams, including the real estate ones.
That the economy was supremely exceeding the limits that politics could set in the name of the common good was already a reality a couple or three decades ago (with the consequent discredit for democracy), but now the overflow is already torrential, especially when the technooligarchy seems to want to fulfill the darkest prophecies. If you look wherever you look, the situation is worrying, then it is almost impossible for a single government to face the emergency situation. Wherever you look, you find the need to reach pacts of the country in which everyone's concessions allow solutions to be found. Old political categories are not useful for the new global and national situation. And the "and you, more" is the cherry on top of the desperate cake.
