Bill Mitchell has an excellent blog post on the development of a lost generation of young people in Europe due to the brutal austerity policies being forced upon the people by the Eurozone elites who, its must be said, are wicked people given the fact that they must know what kind of damage their policies are doing.
Also, it must be said that this is just additional evidence that capitalism is essentially anti-family in its orientation. The lost generation of young people being sacrificed on the Altar of Mammon will likely have trouble forming or maintaining stable families under a system of mass unemployment or unstable, sporadic underemployment. The moralistic platitudes of neoliberal conservatives cannot change this fact.
You hit the nail dead on, Mr. John. There really is no other way to put it. The plutocrats in Europe (and everywhere else for that matter) are only concerned with preserving their own, no matter the cost. And truly no matter! It is this study that must be shown to the public to show them how outraged they must be. Alas, there is no interest in this topic in mainstream media.
ReplyDeleteHello CA Constantian,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. I am sorry I responded so late. The media has done much of the dirty work for the plutocrats by portraying unemployment among the young as a problem of work ethic and morals as opposed to a structural problem. There are few jobs to be had and many of the ones being created are low-paying and unstable.