The pataccari
Marco Isella left a new comment on your post " Natality ":
Just to clarify, I am well aware of the gravity of the Italian decline (probably not reversible in the short term so let alone recover) and I do not even claim that Monti did well, indeed. I'm just saying that whoever caused the crisis that Monti then had to manage did perhaps even worse.
Then personally, rather than crying over spilled milk, I'd think about doing something, like modernizing the PA, raising the doing business index, reforming high school and other similar amenities.
Posted by Marco Isella on Goofynomics on 15 Dec 2021, 19:39
(… probably following this polite warning …)
It was inevitable that the reopening of the blog after a long absence, after the thinning and almost disappearing of our daily debate following the post of which someone begins to appreciate the extent ( nemo propheta in patria ), would produce some victims: all those who have known in my recent capacity, they look out here to contest "ar senatore da 'a Lega" his (in the sense of mine) bizarre economic theories, having no idea either who they are actually talking to, or how much work it was done here, nor (consequently) of how much there would be to learn if we did not pretend to teach, nor (invariably) what economics is, nor (preliminarily) what are the elementary precepts of that condensate of common sense that goes under the name of netiquette (especially rule 3: lurk before you leap , particularly appropriate for a technical blog like this one).
These interventions make me a little tenderness, bringing me back to the heated discussions we had in a time when it made sense to keep them, because it was excusable that interlocutors unwittingly subjected to print sources of the quality we know and that at the time I taught you to evaluate came here to occur in the most trite and retired repertoire of that nefarious ideology that is the communist place!
Of course, today a lot should be clearer, after the fundamental economic message of this blog has become nothing less than the new consensus of those who had done so much to stifle it (ironically, now we meet when I understand Chigi for work: would you ever have thought that?)!
But even without having to go into the theory of sectoral balances, to our dear friend, whose point of view is interesting, I would like to immediately underline that someone else had already thought of reforming the high school (who instead now I am meeting with Madama), apparently without much success – and we will not be so irreverent as to attribute this failure to the quality of the reformer! But, above all, I would like to urge the kind interlocutor to try more practicable ways, considering that today it is easy to read up on information, thus avoiding missing some details, such as that the Doing Business indicators were such a bad thing that the then director of the World Bank (that dear lady who had been promoted to remove her from a command and control line that needed to ensure ethnic homogeneity ) was on the verge of resigning after it turned out that they were more fake than a German Diesel , and that was because she had come here. order to alter them to put the Chinese economy in a better light. An episode of such magnitude that even the partisan Joe felt compelled to bother to defend the pataccara Kristalina!
So, whoever looks out over these pages today citing similar conceptual garbage, it is natural to ask the well-known question …
(… another detail that may have escaped him is that this blog has a dictionary … )
Now, one of the lessons of this blog is that the story made by multilateral bodies is always false, ideological, biased, aimed in particular at the blaming of the victims, as we have seen ex multis here in the case of the IMF and here in the case of Transparency International (another great myth of the Italians enemies of Italy). We can happily do without the spin operations of these willing executioners , because here we read the data.
For heaven's sake: respect for opinions is sacred and if, for example, it happens that by chance a person hates his country, because a certain press has instructed him to do so, I certainly won't be the one to try to make him change his mind. In the same way, however, our time should also be respected, and therefore with courtesy I urge those who come here now to do something that I learned to do too long ago without even imagining how useful it would have been for me a long time later: shut up, leaving bystanders in doubt.
A subtly disturbing state, but always better than the alternative: the excruciating certainty of facing someone who has no idea at all …
(… that then there is nothing wrong with having no idea of something: there are so many things, that I myself cannot even imagine how many things I could have no idea! But, how to say: internalizing this awareness is a tiring but healthy operation … )
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2021/12/i-pataccari.html on Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:03:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.