The concerning intergenerational imbalance

The Covid-19 pandemic has revived the debate on inequalities between the generations. For some, the various lockdowns and the “whatever the cost” strategy were favorable to the elderly, for whom the lethality of the virus is important, and unfavorable to the youth, who suffered a simultaneous deterioration in the quality of teaching exempted and the opportunities offered by the labor market, and inherits as a bonus a considerably increased public debt. The assumed decision to prioritize “health over the economy” would thus be likely to increase inequalities between generations and, why not, produce a sacrificed generation. For the others, the pandemic was on the contrary the revealing moment of a magnificent solidarity between the generations where the concern of others was expressed not only with regard to the elderly and their health but also to the place of the youth for which we deplored the ravages of containment policies. This session will examine the relations between the generations in a world which, even if it manages to get rid of the Covid, will nonetheless be confronted with an increasingly significant demographic imbalance.