Italy 2020: the drama of the redundancies Alitalia, Ilva and Peugeot-Fca

I have already said and written it knowing that, obviously, my point of view is not only worth nothing, worse, it can be taken apart from a simple "you say so". Stubbornly, however, I repeat: I am terrified that in 2020 a perfect storm explodes triggered by the redundancies of Alitalia, ILVA, Peugeot-FCA and related suppliers and induced.

I'm terrified because the country's government, for thirty years now, has been conditioned by an embarrassing political, economic and cultural model (the CEO capitalism). We have been governed by all the nuances of incompetence, political, academic, media. With the ConteBis we reached unexpected heights. Then, there are those who are firm in their denial of any form of industrial policy regardless, or rather those that are not subject to certain expressions such as: "A country that owns 50% of the works of art of the globe cannot but have a national airline ". These are joined by the proponents of another phrase "We are the second European manufacturing power, we cannot not produce the steel we need". Then there are the "retarded" ones who say: "If the French close the Fiat factories, we the FCA nationalize it, tie!", Which they do with those who would like Europe not to approve the acquisition of FCA (American company ) by Peugeot. All unrealistic statements because all of them are not supported by any credibility of the model and by serious execution methods.

I wrote "retarded" not in terms of intellect (I would look at it well, since they are the most rarefied industrial-union elite characters) but because they pretend not to know that Fiat Auto ceased to be an Italian company when the "Americans" bought it, beyond the form in 2009, after a rapid "nationalization-privatization" of Chrysler (with restrictions on employment and US investment, because non-ideological liberals , when it comes to national strategic companies they do so, and they do well).

Now its "American" shareholders they sold it to the French of Peugeot, in exchange for money and shares (and certainly guarantees on Jeep / Ram and industrial sites). Closed game. Rather, let us hope that Renault will find a third partner, because the Bonapartist ("shareholder-master" of Peugeot-FCA) should he have problems in the great risk of the car still in progress, he will acquire it, terrified as he is by the yellow vests. Too bad that no analyst has written a truism: Peugeot paid a very high price for the acquisition of FCA, not because they are fools, but to have governance, precisely to "save" Renault, if necessary I have no proof, but I know a little about how the French move in business: pure sovereigns).

Take note that today "individual egoism no longer creates general well-being as it once did": that is a finite world. So what to do? I would have an idea but I prefer to keep quiet, they would make me pass for a stoned pierino. Better to sit in an armchair and see what these of ConteBis will come up with, let's not forget, the government wanted by the Establishment. As a personal contribution I limit myself to four pills on the cross:

1. The "work" (not the consumer) must be the strategic asset at the center of the cultural economic and political scene of any civilized country.

2. In the mythical Sessantotto a very successful phrase was born: "Complex problems require complex solutions". Too bad it was, and is, false (albeit author's). On this cultured lie the "competent" campanos for half a century, have created obscene bureaucracies (they have inserted their loved ones) to control the nothing, have exalted and enriched laughable "consultants" and the so-called "technicians". In reality the correct term would have been the one known since the dawn of time: "The problems are all complex, but they all have a solution, if the one who confronts them is a leader."

3. Faced with the next crisis, we are much more fragile than in 2008, but we pretend that this is not the case. Don't worry, all the knots come to a head.

4. I wonder: why, instead of witnessing the progressive, unstoppable failure of one's own political economic and cultural model, don't make a ferocious self-criticism and work to modify it, before the yellow vests arrive?

Riccardo Ruggeri, 12 November 2019

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