Italian collective aging increasingly serious. Pino Corrias: “Veterans are rewarded, not young people”

This article on the aging of the population is published in number 28-29 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until July 15, 2025.

It is a vocation more than a fate: the New President of CONIwho is the young planet par excellence, is about to accomplish 75 years. Is called Luciano Buonfiglio And he competed on the kayak shells, removing at the Montréal Olympic Games, year 1976. He did not win medals then. It wins it half a century now. And the medal of the assignment will last four years. Good for him. A little less for us, caught as we are in our worst collective agingwith the younger generations, the most precious for the future of the nations, held as much as possible from the enclosures of small and large powers.

So much so that most of the major Italian bankers and the Mother very Mamma of Finance. All with fable salaries and adequately millionaire stock options. Good for them. A little less for us, seen The constant exodus of young people from Italy. Including many of our best talents, engineers, researchers, doctors, professionals, who detach the light to emigrate throughout Europe, Spain, Germany, Great Britain on the headwhere job opportunities are better and higher salaries.

With the surprising detail underlined last year by Istat, who The major exodus start from the richest regions, Veneto and Lombardywhere the formation of a student, from elementary to graduation, does not cost less than 250 thousand euros per state that in the future years will lose its fruits. Good for other states. A little less for us, considering that the most full of energy creativity, the one that invents, innovates, moves the mountains, explodes very soon, over the years it settles, finally declines. Leafing through the almanac of yesterday, Albert Einstein conceived the theory of relativity at the age of 25; Charles Darwin He described the mechanisms of evolution to 21. Guglielmo Marconi He invented the radio at 19. The same age as the American Philo Farnsworthwhen he lit his first TV.

And today that access to training have enormously expanded? Same music: Steve Jobs Fonda Apple in his garage at 20. Larry Page And Sergey Brin They invent Google at 23. Bill Gates records the Microsoft brand at 19. The same age as Mark Zuckerbergwhen it develops Facebook. So losing the youngest is a long -term crime.

Especially since ours demographic winter He worsens. The birth index has come down again, at 1.18 percent, which means just more than one new born every two Italians, with the perspective, in a few decades, to halve the entire population. And then of raise our average age more and moretoday 48.7 years old, which places us at the top of Europe. Making us get old faster than all other countries. Catastrophe that proceeds without acceptable countermeasures, disinterested as we are to family policies, multiplication of nursery schools and incentives for the birth rate. Better to reward the veterans than young people and pay a slowness towards the decline.

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