In recent years, job and life insecurity has taken over the new generations. Millions of young people with talent and abilities, who try to make a place for themselves through effort, contacts and a lot of work. However, lack of money continues to be the main handicap for many people under 30 years of age, whether during working hours or when looking for an apartment, where monthly rents and conditions become prohibitive.
A matter that LaSexta Xplica wanted to investigate this past Sunday. The outreach and citizen participation program dedicated its latest edition to citizen tension over poorly paid jobs and the lack of favorable conditions to become independent. One of the experts invited to the set was Javier Díaz-Giménez, economist and professor at the IESE Business School, who was involved in a controversial moment with a young journalist.
“You have chosen a career that you should not have chosen. You were wrong,” were Díaz-Giménez's viral words addressed to Ainhoa Pérez, 26, after exposing her profession and the studies she had under her belt. Immediately, commotion and indignation took over the studio, especially the affected woman, who complained and questioned whether there was “a range of professions in which some are worth more than others.”
José Yélamo, host of the program, also intervened in favor of the journalist, pointing out that Ainhoa “should have the same guarantees of finding a decent job as in other professions.” However, the economist's reaction was even more forceful. “There is a demand for work for journalists and another for engineers. Go back to study. Become an engineer,” she snapped, generating even more outrage, particularly on social media.
“Díaz-Giménez, propagandist of utilitarian illiteracy and supporter of the mercantilist stupidization of humanity. From reading economics manuals so much, he hasn't had time to read Nuccio Ordine, a person with a culture infinitely superior to his own,” declared a user on X (Twitter) forcefully. “Of course, let's see if your productivity improves. I have never heard him say anything that makes sense,” came from another user.
“Why Díaz-Giménez has not received at least a punch in the glasses as soon as they have finished recording is, to say the least, curious”, “Díaz-Giménez being Díaz-Giménez. Imagine being an economist and ending up saying nonsense on television” or “Díaz-Giménez, of course, is not an engineer, but an economist. The law of supply and demand, sacralized by those whose employment is not demanded by anyone” have been other of the most notable criticisms.
