Once upon a time there were workers and there were bosses. There were the factories, the unions, Marx, alienated labor, the assembly line. And there was Fiat, the popular car, the 500, the 600, there was the economic boom. Now there is Stallantis, or French mind, there is the global market, the Agnellis are looking at technology and bio-tech, Marx is dead, and the Internet, with digital, have retired the glorious industrial civilization of the 20th century.
In this new context it happens that Stellantis sends an email offering its employees, including workers, Maseratis at affordable prices. I don’t know, 80 thousand instead of 90 thousand, still years and years of salary for many who read that email. It resulted, as always in Italy, in a political case, yet another government-opposition clash. Instead, in my opinion, the affair tells today of an in-sense robotization of the old ruling class.
Whoever wrote that email and whoever sent it should be put not on layoff, as is often the case with potential buyers of cheap Maseratis, but really fired. For manifest professional incapacity that becomes offense for moreover unintentional, that is, lack of sense of reality, respect for people and trivial opportunity.
Meanwhile, Stellantis announces plants in America and depopulates Italy. Ah good old days of Fiat, when they fought but at least produced a million cars in our country. It could happen again, but they will be Chinese. It is globalization … beauty!
The article Stellantis dust comes from TheNewyorker.
