ROME (ITALPRESS) – “The European citizen today needs to use more thinking skills to be less broke.” This was stated by Roberto Sommella, editor of MF Milano Finanza, in an interview with Claudio Brachino for the Primo Piano column of the Italpress news agency, about his latest book “Broke. Manifesto of Modern Times. “Before writing this essay I read three important Manifestos: the Futurist Manifesto, the Ventotene Manifesto and the Communist Party Manifesto. In all of them a world different from the one we live in is hypothesized, a world in which oppositions are resolved through ideas and not through armed struggle: today we still try to solve social problems by applying the ideology of the market,” Sommella points out, who thus argues his rejection of Europe’s recent approach to the economy: “I think the mistake was to build a system of rules by convincing ourselves that the rest of the world thought like Europe: it ended up that we do not grow, while the United States and China do.” For the editor of MF Milano Finanza, an unfair transition is “suicidal. We have already created a world in which an electric car costs 25 thousand euros: we are talking about 20 salaries of a worker, the moment the latter is not allowed to buy a car the whole system of development changes.”It is fundamental, according to the journalist, to find a balance in an era marked by the increasingly rapid evolution of the technological landscape: “If we remain the terrain of conquest of other technologies produced by other continents, we will have to explain to those who lose their jobs what is left for them to do,” Sommella explains. “We must not become either too digital or too nostalgic, nor must we leave too much room for homo legislativo: norms are not the only answer to the changing world but rather should accompany it. Too often we think we solve global problems with national ideas and confederations as needed: faced with shocks such as pandemics and war we need more federations and less confederations. “The editor of MF Milano Finanza closes with a reflection on the recent U.S. elections and its consequences for the Old Continent: “If we go it alone in Europe we will go nowhere. If Trump proves to be smart he will be much more moderate than he has appeared so far: before Covid he had done nothing wrong, because the economy was growing and he had not invaded any country. He is a figure who preaches badly and rains well. For Europe to respond with laws and tariffs to a protectionist policy like America’s would be wrong.”
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