On this occasion, Santiago Niño Becerra, Professor of Economic Structure at the Ramón Llull University, dedicates his opinion article on La Carta de la Bolsa to young people and the dependence that many of them have on their parents today.
The expert points out that a few days ago he received an email from a reader that left him shocked because it said: “42% of upper-class youth live in a situation of complete dependency.”
The article points out that, while 24% of lower-middle class youth live at the expense of their parents, in the upper class this happens to 42%. And also, since 2008, according to the text, the percentage of married young people whose parents assume most of their support has gone from 4.5% to 20.5%.
In this sense, Santiago Niño Becerra believes that yes, that “the x-ray that makes the article is correct.” “For me this would be framed in the general context in which we find ourselves: ‘sobra-de-everything’, also children who do not have a notable professional projection because they do not possess the intellectual and knowledge assets that are necessary today to stand out professionally because… ‘extra-everything'”, affirms the economist.
However, Niño Becerra considers that the most important thing is the question that his reader suggests at the end of the email received, “a question that nobody with institutional representation neither asks nor answers because it is ugly and does not give votes, and a problem that very few experts address because does it have a solution? The economist states that this whole situation has not only been produced by the crisis, “but the crisis is what has brought to light this context of excess-of-everything.”
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