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How Italy Lost the 21st Century

FEE · Commentary

Excerpt from FEEBy Marta RoelsOriginal publication date shown above. This is a source excerpt, not independent reporting by Republic Readout.

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In the Italian comedy Quo Vado?, Checco Zalone plays a 39-year-old who lives with his parents and clings desperately to his permanent government job. Even when transferred to an Arctic research station, he refuses to surrender his posto fisso—permanent government job. The joke works because it captures a national ideal: security from change. Yet when …

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