In my opinion, there's no way out of this conundrum with just education.

The people, everybody and the Portuguese included, will only learn with system collapse.

This is the learnings from Argentina. It simply doesn't work. A social welfare state will always fail unless it has precise incentives with direct democracy mechanisms like in Switzerland. The Swiss model can maintain a stable social welfare state, because the incentives there precisely define scarcity and meritocracy.

Anything else with worse mechanisms (i.e all the so called democratic world except Switzerland) will fail in due time. Fail in hyperinflation, economic collapse (asset bubble) or a combination of both.

Argentina shows that you can spend 60 years trying to explain this to people and only after the 5 or 6th hyperinflation scenario do people actually learn.

But let's see how it rolls in Portugal. The population is old also, which is not an advantage. For me the scenario in Portugal is inflation and slower economic bankrupcy for people far from the printer.

Basically a more divided, polarized Argentina on steroids because of much larger inequality (between haves and have not), much more debt, much more house/private debt, etc.

Chega if it ever gets power might delay the polarization somewhat. But they'll quickly be removed if they don't truly reform (Milei style, and much further).

It's a pre-Ditadura Militar of 1920s in Portugal but with much more inequality, polarization, debt.

By 1920s the Portuguese people were begging for the military and then the ditadura militar (which implements Salazar later on) gets implemented without opposition from anyone.

Let's see what happens :)