One in three Italians will not pay their gas bill by Christmas. If the Coop investigation is realistic, it will be an epochal disaster
The Coops have published the 2022 report on Italian consumption and lifestyle. Like any research of this kind, it is closely linked to the sample surveyed and often also to the inclinations of the client: in fact, how the questions are asked influences the answers, so if I ask you "You are for nature", in a generic way, without identifying a counterweight, you will obviously have a lot of yes.
Having said that, the report has some disturbing aspects for our future. Here are some excerpts:
And if it is true that more than other countries, the (commercial and ideological) link with Russia is a fact (Italians are the most pro-Putinian in Europe), it is equally true that, net of ideologies, the bill dilemma it is far from being resolved and indeed weighs like a boulder on families already short of oxygen. 57% already today declares the difficulty of paying the rent, 26% thinks of suspending or postponing the payment and if we restrict the field to electricity and gas, one in 3 Italians by Christmas may no longer cover the costs for utilities.
The figures should be scary: if one in three Italians thinks not to pay users by the end of the year, it means that the whole Italian energy system will jump like a bottle cap: as we wrote in a previous article, the current, not very sensible, legislation is discharged. unpaid bills by defaulting users on those who pay correctly. If one in three does not pay and this burden falls on the others, then the whole system will fail.
Let's continue with another excerpt.
In fact, Italy hit by the perfect storm turns out to be a more vulnerable country with the middle class increasingly in difficulty, a part that remains behind (24 million who in 2022 experienced at least one hardship) and a clear growth in the area of true poverty and its own (+ 6 million in the last year).
Even Coop realizes an incontrovertible fact: the middle class no longer exists in Italy. The country is now divided into a majority of poor people and a small minority of rich people. The class to which all centrists turn politically, that which would be made up of the "Conservatives", as in other countries, does not exist, is defunct. This also explains the high mobility of the vote: if no moderate solution works, then another is sought.
I hope that Coop's research will only provide us with a partial and distorted vision of reality because, if it were realistic, the next rulers will have to face some good problems, probably not solvable by conventional means.
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