A world that escapes our hands as the hair turns gray. Will young people make it?

The advent of the pandemic was like a watershed between the old and new world, not that there have been any sharp breaks in our lives, or that an upheaval visible to everyone's eyes and physically verifiable has come about, but many things have changed irreversibly.

The pandemic has created a sort of forced meditation, closed inside homes, in which time has played a new role, it has allowed us to think, to take stock, to understand where we were on the journey of our life and what we would like to change.

We came out dazed, saddened, perhaps more cynical, but we have certainly put our lives more at the center, on the scale of priorities , acquiring greater awareness of who we are and what we want.

The first evident consequence of this collective meditation was expressed in the different relationship with the time and ways we dedicated to work which, at the net of the usual cunning of the moment, he made himself felt above all in those sectors where working life was less regulated and protected.

A channel of activity where working was a concession, almost a favour, and even the pay fell from the sky as if it were a gift, where the hours could not be counted and the earnings were slim. An army of precarious workers who offered their days to mainly commercial activities, and who no longer presented themselves to their old jobs after the pandemic.

Don't they eat anymore, don't have to pay rent or bills, don't have to get dressed and lead a dignified life? Yes, they have to do all of this but, in silence, they understood that the relationship between employer and employee had to change, everyone must do their part, with respect, fairness and within the working times agreed by both parties.

It was understood that one doesn't have to live to work, that the relationship with money could change, that the consumer society in which we live we must not suffer it, but live it by choosing how to do it as we please.

It is not a new form of social proletariat, it is the awareness that we no longer have to live to have, to satisfy ideal desires, like an endless and incurable addiction.

The stop of Covid has made us understand that it is possible to live even with much less than what we have always thought up to now, that time is the very treasure we have, and the spending of it, with the ways to do it, belongs only to us.

As in the 19th century where the Luddism movement was concerned with the consequences of the industrialization of work on the workforce, and therefore on the sustenance of the weakest sections of the population, even today, the youngest, the least protected generation, the most fragile in the social sphere, is rediscovering a new form of Luddism.

Today's young people are not going to destroy the weaving looms which two centuries ago reduced the need for manpower, they throw misery, let's not set fire to the headquarters of Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram, Amazon or companies that computerize everyday life, let's not revolt against a state that does not assist families who have no financial resources to make graduate a child, or to give him the opportunity to take a training course to learn a trade, surviving progress.

Young people are starting to understand that international capital movements create new worlds, where technicality and high-level IT skills are necessary to live, where many medium or low schooling activities can be replaced by artificial intelligence, a robot or something that doesn't exist yet.

At this point Marx could enter the scene, claiming the right of all peoples, of all social classes, to live a dignified, economically stable and preferably peaceful life.

Many sections of the population have already been affected by technological progress, for example the elderly are excluded from any relationship with the public administration, with banks having much of the corporate assets as they lack basic IT skills.

Many people of working age risk, or have already risked, being replaced by more or less intelligent forms of machines, both in factory, office and trade, entering the tunnel of a new poverty and social abandonment.

Money is always the engine of all social and environmental changes, and their use sometimes creates wrong, opaque and harmful behaviors which, continued over the years , have changed not only people's minds but also the planet we live on.

The environmental catastrophes caused in the last 6 or 7 decades, still partially denied today by some, are leading the world towards situations for which we are not prepared, such as lack of water, energy, unstoppable climatic migrations, local wars, widespread pollution also in our food chain.

But we are still walking, as we approach the ravine, with blindfolded eyes, headphones in our ears to listen to the their music, the very sound of money in the Pink Floyd song comes to mind. But is this what we need to hear?

We are still in time, changing lifestyle, way of thinking and reminding us that we are all their market and their money, therefore, modern Luddism is knowing how to give up the superfluous, disconnecting from social networks which are also a machine to indoctrinate our choices and rekindle our brain.

Machine translation. We apologize for any inaccuracies. Original article in Italian.