Italy

I have a lot of family from Italy, and it's got great people and culture. But politically: the malaise of socialism.

I have nothing against Italy. In fact, I have a lot of family there, and it's got great people and culture. But they believed in centralized government, and the wisdom of the masses, and the state over the individual: and the results was a slow decay in malaise, that the individuals all admit is stifling, but none will question their prime assumptions enough to fix.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2020-02-19

The wise give up and leave, or at least stop trying -- and the rest are resigned to complain and climb to the bottom and be the biggest victims. And that's Progressive Democratic Socialism in a nutshell.

Gini Coefficient - The Gini Coefficient came about when Corrado Gini wrote the book on Fascism. He said that income should be evenly distributed, and if it wasn’t, the imbalance is an excuse to seize and redistribute wealth and liberty to make things “more fair”. His coefficient is basically just that: a measure of how economically fascists (socialist) your country is.
Italian Malaise - 46% of Italians claim to be unhappy despite having greater private wealth, a longer life expectancy, and better weather than people in most other European countries. The elites run the place, and it stinks as the progressive utopia chokes most innovation and change to death.

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Places
Places to go, things to see, people to do... not necessarily in that order.

EU
Europeans don't usually understand the U.S., or what made us successful (as much as they think they do).

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