Where does the hostility of many young people to economic freedom come from
Liberalism never ceases to provoke debates and discussions, being much more than a mere address in the economic field, rather the mirror of the interests of each individual. In fact, even those who flaunt their aversion to the free market are actually the first to take advantage of its benefits, given the opportunity to develop their life and professional career in an economic environment based on competition and on the freedom to choose, in search of his personal success. A difficult goal, but, if achieved through one's own competence, without interventions and favors, first of all the State, it can give priceless and unimaginable gratification in any territory governed by illiberal or, even worse, totalitarian systems.
Therefore, it would be fundamental for the new generations to appreciate and defend economic and business freedom among their values, having before them a prairie of time in which to develop and achieve their ambitions, in the wake of healthy competition. In every sphere, professional, cultural or political, the values of individualism and commitment should be promoted among the youngest as a means for the realization of one's projects.
Yet, precisely among young people it often happens to hear ungenerous criticisms and children of bad information towards capitalist society, liberalism and competition. Accusations that are the result of the damage of a statist culture, in many cases welfare, which pervades in particular the world of public education but also Catholic. School desks often represent, right from primary school, an area where children are influenced and led to thoughts distant from the real world, in the name of a hypocritical equality that does not defend minorities and the fragile, but criminalizes the will of the individual to get involved.
Thus, with the often unconscious endorsement of families, the rhetoric arises that those who manage to obtain more thanks to their qualities are not deserving but privileged, to be condemned as a fomenter of inequalities and social imbalances. An ideological short circuit towards which we must not stoop but develop a definite and effective response, in order to avoid growing failed generations from the start.
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