YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Young people, family, and intergenerational mindsets  269 Figure 7.12: Reducing the demands of older people in favour of young people. 15% 20% 10% 5% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 Strongly disagree Strongly agree 9.3 5.0 8.8 13.3 10.1 15.0 10.0 10.9 6.0 1.9 3.4 0% Source: Mladina 2020. On the contrary, the results show that, rather than a simmering conflict between generations, young people also have a great deal of empathy for those who are often unjustly held up as the “culprits” for the lack of re- sources in the area of youth social transfers. That young people do not fall for the rhetoric of the zero-sum game and the inevitability of inter- generational conflict is shown by the fact that a very large number of young people believe that older people are just as disadvantaged as young people when it comes to welfare and the public policies of the state that is supposed to deliver it. The high level of agreement with the claim that both the young and the older people are disadvantaged in terms of welfare, in addition to solidarity with other age groups, also in- dicates a considerable level of understanding of the functioning of the welfare state and of the role of the state in a welfare society.