Pino Corrias: low salaries, GDP, inflation: Meloni’s fairy tale and the bitter reality

This entry is posted on the number 20 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until 13 May 2025

All governments tell each other with the plumes. Berlusconi was a teacher, music, lights, velvet added us. But also Giorgia Meloni Don’t joke. In his daily declarations – without the drying of questions – he says that Italy is so beautiful with all the sails explained that it is a wonder to look at it. So true that salaries go well, the occupation pulls, on health we are working, promised, the South is a resource, safety, a guarantee, tourism a deposit, the immigrants a problem that we are solving, bringing them back and forth from Albania. Cheers.

Too bad that the real numbers say the opposite of the fairy tale. Exactly for thirty years the salaries of Italian workers have slipped downwards. In France, 25 percent increased. In Germany of 20. It is the worst result among the major economies of Europe, a record. Certified, complete with tables, by all national and international bodies.

Including the numbers of the inflation that has grown, as per IPCA index, in the last years of 18 points, the so -called “Silent tax” That every morning, without distinguishing between rich and poor, we eat contractual increases, savings and of course the purchasing power of wages.

So much so that Poverty, in recent years, has not decreased at all. On the contrary. According to Istat, 2024, 23 percent of the population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Meaning the threshold of poverty between 9 and 12 thousand euros per year. Then including the employees-the goalkeeper, the cashier, the laborer, the teacher with a mortgage, the precarious, the contract researcher, the part-time employee-who earn the minimum essential to keep on the edge of survival, but always with the risk that a wind blow to precipitate them.

The counterprova lies in the constant exodus of the most awake, bravest young people, who leave Italy behind To go and earn a less gram future: 550 thousand between 18 and 34 years old, say the data, they took the first leg in the last twenty years.
A good part of them wearing a degree made and finished, which cost 100 thousand euros for each student on average. Who will produce wealth in the arms of another state that thanks he hearly.
Damage that has been added to industrial production for 25 months It is that of companies, the last in Europe to reinvest the profits in development, first to distribute dividends.

Also for this the Benedict Gross domestic product grows so littlethis year (perhaps) of 0.6 percent, demonstrating that “the great successes of employment” that boasts the government are always part of the fairy tale.
“Never many employed since Garibaldi’s time”said Meloni, the narrator. Which is a good gimmick, since it compares a peasant and illiterate Italy of 150 years ago with this today called to defend itself from artificial intelligence and together from the human vanagloria of politicians.

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