The majority of young people in Spain find themselves in a situation of confusion and incapacity. They have needs and expectations, but they can't find a way to bring them to fruition. And to a large extent it is due to the economic limitations they have. In general terms, young Spaniards register the same problems. Many cannot find work and those who do have jobs tend to have precarious salaries. This lack of income makes it difficult for them to find optimal solutions in the real estate market. Those who have no choice but to live independently, because nowadays it has become a punishment and not a blessing, many times they have to do so by paying a fortune for a room in a shared apartment or for a property the size of a storage room. With leisure or shopping basket prices at historic highs, those few incomes become even more insignificant. And everything stuffed into a wheel that doesn't stop spinning makes it impossible to think about any kind of savings. Faced with this situation, some 'new' economic experts, because they report mainly through social networks and not traditional media or universities, try to give these young people advice to improve the management of their scarce resources and try, as soon as possible, to change their situation. One of those cases is the renowned Andrés González, best known for his platform 'La Pizarra de Andrés', which has made him nationally popular to the point of having hundreds of thousands of followers in his different spaces. And one of his first pieces of advice for young people is basic, but not always easy to follow: don't spend. Or, at least, not spend on things that have no real need. «What you cannot do when you are super young, and it is the first thing that drives you, is to fall into consumerism that we have all had of wanting to melt all your money. Many times in things that are for show. It seems obvious and simple, managing a reduced economy requires maturity, something that is often in short supply during certain stages of life. For this reason, Andrés asks as an initiation for that sanity and willpower that, little by little, will allow us to build a foundation. Because grain does not make a granary, but it helps its companion, as the accurate Castilian saying goes. The launcher of 'La Pizarra de Andrés' insists. «You have to leave that because that is what is going to become your first part of the investment. That is, you will become aware that this is going to be your future. Your future property, your future pension... It is a great truth that at certain ages it is difficult to think about that edifying future, about everything that is not here and now. But given the current precarious situation, it is essential. But Andrés has other advice, this one even more controversial. «The other, if you can afford it, is don't rent. I mean, if you can be at your parents' house. "You will never save as much as at your parents' house." Two qualifiers can be applied to this advice again. Basic as well as fundamental. This is a sad reality, but, at the same time, a more than useful strategy. Andrés himself was a participant in it, as he explains in his time on 'Focus on podcast'. «Every time I say it there are many people who are outraged, but it is my life. I was at my parents' house until I was 32. It doesn't always happen that way, but in his case it was a law of cause and effect. «I could have left much sooner. But I managed to buy two properties before I left my parents' house. With sacrifice and savings, but those moments of austerity allowed him to emerge stronger than most young people at his age. And it appeals to the generosity and sense of duty of parents under normal conditions. «If parents see that you are working all day, investing and such, they are not going to say no. "I don't think so, they're not going to think what a disaster of a son."
Andrés González, economist: «I was at my parents' house until I was 32 years old. I could…
The majority of young people in Spain find themselves in a situation of confusion and incapacity. They have needs and expectations, but they can't find a way t…
