The damage of pauperism that prevails today with 5 Stars and the Catholic Left Will Draghi be the embankment?
Social envy is a common phenomenon when looking at the history of mankind. After all, it is quite natural that those who occupy lower positions feel envious of those above. Equally normal that resentment mainly concerns income: if your own is low, you inevitably tend to feel a feeling of frustration when you notice that someone earns more.
Raise your hand if you have never felt envious, for example, towards a more gifted schoolmate who obtained better grades by studying less, or for a colleague who manages to perform tasks similar to ours with less effort and more effective results.
If contained within physiological limits, this phenomenon can be a stimulus for growth and represent an incentive to competition, a fundamental pillar of any society that intends to be not only democratic, but also liberal.
Obviously, those who would like to impose equality by law do not agree. Ignoring the fact that it is not only an abstract concept, but also a dangerous one when it is remembered that human beings are not born equal at all, and that the differences between them can – if properly exploited – constitute a factor of wealth for all.
What has been happening for quite some time in our country, however, causes a lot of perplexity (and I don't think I'm the only one to have them). Without a doubt, it is right to penalize high – or even average – incomes when they are not the result of real merit. I don't like to use the term "caste" because it has now become a kind of useless and repetitive mantra . But in this case I use it to make myself understood better.
Therefore, the "caste" should also be hit, trying to eliminate waste and abuse, and aiming to sever the umbilical cord that binds so many managerial positions to the political world. However, it should not be forgotten that the salary must necessarily be commensurate with the degree of complexity of the work performed and the level of responsibility that it entails.
Otherwise, once again, the trade union mentality that has already caused so much damage in our country will have won. All the same? Todos caballeros ? God forbid. The operation was attempted in 1968 and also in subsequent decades, and the results are there for all to see.
And don't think that mine is a purely abstract discourse. To remain in an area that I know well, the university, the much-hyped Gelmini reform (which should actually be called the Berlinguer reform) started with the aim of making universities more efficient and managerial.
Instead, we are witnessing in many cases a real "seizure of power" by the administrative staff to the detriment of the teachers, with the senseless multiplication of rules and quibbles worthy of the Bourbon bureaucracy. All this forgetting the fact that universities are not biscuit or automobile factories. Their "business name" consists of teaching and scientific research, with the administrative apparatus performing (or should) a support function.
The remuneration, in this case and in all the others, must be commensurate with the nature of the duties, without indulging in Jacobin claims of equality. Yet, as I said earlier, the feeling is that Jacobinism always rules.
A pauperist philosophy has been practiced, with few obstacles, by the Conte government with the essential support of the 5 Star Movement. And a part of the Catholic world also contributed – close to the Democratic Party – which is not familiar with liberal thought and does not even intend to acquire it. It is no coincidence that Giorgio La Pira is sometimes mentioned, a very respectable man of great moral depth, but with ideas that are certainly not in keeping with the time we are living.
It has not yet been understood, in this regard, how Mario Draghi and his government will really move. Certainly the great heterogeneity of the political forces that compose it worries. The hope that the experience accumulated by the premier at the ECB marks a turning point is however contradicted by the pauperist tendencies of many people who have fundamental roles in this government.
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