I - like most of my friends - belong to the Génération précaire: Young, well educated people with little chances on the job market. Whilst I am lucky to have quite an impressive resumé and significant job experience (thanks to my dropout into the New Economy) the situation is quite dire for those graduates who are below 30 today with only little professional experience in jobs other than free traineeships and stacking shelves.

The press, government and many social critical voices appease the situation by claiming that this chanceless generation of today will have its time when the babyboomers drop out of the workforce and the labour market is dry. I have a slightly more pessimistic view which is fueled by my observations of the current labour market. Instead of investing in local people companies tend to hire people from abroad. If then in 10 years a company will have the choice between a 35 - 45 year old Local without significant experience and an Overseas specialist with 20 years experience in the boom era in China, the US or India, who do you think will get the job?

The tragic thing here is the inability of today's politicians to open their eyes to the socioeconomic realities of the future: Globalization is making the world more equal and the result of Neo Capitalism and todays technology driven economy is also equality in poverty. In the earlier years the first world was prospering while the third world was starving. In the future we will have less starving people around the world, but masses of people who are too poor to live a decent lifestyle, and a small percentage of superrich people who will basically make the economy go round. Labour forces will be the new slaves of their superrich masters.

Our generation will have to accept that many basic needs of a human being: home, shelter, family, self-realization may in the future be denied to us. Already now the percentage of young poor is significantly higher than the number of poor elderly people. More money is invested in the care of old people than in scholarships or job training programs for the young. The premise that one has deserved pension as a result of a life of work may change. And why not provide money for the young so that they are at all ENABLED to work? It is unfair if elderly people don't get money after a hard life of work, but isn't it even unfairer if young people are denied the chance to at all get started in the working process?

In the earlier Indian society with high joblessness among graduates the joint family would take care of its less fortunate siblings and children. As such those who were able to work, to self realize themselves would support the others, who in exchange would take care of their children, do paintjobs at home, get the groceries and the pet to the vet. In order to prepare our society for this challenge we must revise the way we interact with eachother.

I don't think that in western societies the joint family is a system that could work. People are too individualistic and too much used to privacy already. But what about Wohngemeinschaften (House-sharing) where those who work bring in the money and those who don't take care of domestic affairs until they find something new? That would solve many problems, destress many people's lives and give emotional support to many people who are lonely in their misery.