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Due società a confronto per capire gli italiani di oggi e gli occidentali tutti.
Ora ci sarebbe da fare un paragone. Ma lo lascio scritto con le parole del giornalista:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-a...nity-politics/
Ten years ago, on the eve of the last open presidential contest in 2008, the Metropolitan Policy Program convened leaders from the Great Lakes to discuss the region’s unique economic and social history, and push for economic answers. A group of us then worked to develop and implement a roadmap for economic revival, under the banner of the Great Lakes Economic Initiative. As a result, expanded federal investment in energy, manufacturing, and health care innovation was channeled to the region’s world-class universities and their business partners while billions of dollars in funds for Great Lakes clean-up began to flow in recognition of the economic development power centered around clean water and rehabilitated waterfronts. In addition, new public-private investment partnerships were built to finance infrastructure projects, and overcome deficits in venture capital to ensure the region’s prodigious technology invention led to new business growth.
The election of Donald Trump in 2016—keyed by these same states—has focused national attention on our region and the state of Michigan like never before. As our 2006 report “The Vital Center” detailed, there is a unique economic, social and cultural storyline to the region. But here’s the thing: while one part of that storyline helps explain why the Midwestern electorate was moved to turn out and vote for Donald Trump, another part points to different outcomes.
John C. Austin
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program
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The cradle of America’s great industrial economy, the region has borne inventions such as the automobile and the assembly-line manufacturing process courtesy of Henry Ford. Industrial cities like Detroit boomed across the upper Midwest, and spurred the growth of an interdependent network of small and medium-sized factory towns sprinkled liberally amidst the region’s cornfields and forests. A highly integrated supply chain grew, making everything from cars to chemicals, dishwashers to tooling dyes, cereal and steel. Industry advancement stretched from Minnesota and Iowa in the West, across the Great Lakes through western New York, and into Pennsylvania and the “Chemical Valley” and coalfields of West Virginia in the East. But when new global competitors, technological change and automation led to dramatic restructuring of the region’s heavy industry, it obliterated a huge number of good-paying assembly line jobs, and shuttered employers in the Rust Belt’s company towns. In so many once-thriving communities, young people have fled, and the residents who do remain have grown frustrated over diminished job prospects, and are anxious about the future. The very same anger and anxiety that found an outlet at the ballot box in 2016.
In so many once-thriving communities, young people have fled, and the residents who do remain have grown frustrated over diminished job prospects, and are anxious about the future. The very same anger and anxiety that found an outlet at the ballot box in 2016.
It is wrong however to paint the Rust Belt with one brush, or even one color. The economic and social truth is in fact a tale of two Rust Belts. Some communities have assets (and have advanced strategies to build on those assets) that now find them and their residents not only participating in, but actually leading the move to a more knowledge-based, technology-driven and urbanized economy. Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee are today economically diversified, dynamic and growing metro economies. Big university towns like Madison, Ann Arbor, and Bloomington are magnets of state talent, innovation centers, and largely recession-proof. All of these communities are attracting and keeping highly educated populations, producing rising incomes, and maintain a diversified economic base. They are no longer beholden as manufacturing monocultures, as was the norm across the region fifty years ago when Minneapolis was “Flour City,” or Pittsburgh as the “Steel City.”
And these communities all voted “blue” last fall.
It’s a very different story in many other Rust Belt communities, however. The small- and medium-sized factory towns that dot the highways and byways of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin have lost their anchor employers and are struggling to fill the void. Many of these communities, including once solidly Democratic-voting, union-heavy, blue collar strongholds, flipped to Trump in 2016.
In pratica la stessa cosa ovunque. L'Italia del nord, laureati (i famosi laureati democratici) piddini, sardini, piccoli e medi imprenditori uguale.
Quella parte di plebe che è stata promossa socialmente dal centrosinistra organico durante gli anni 60-70, università di massa, nascita dei distretti industriali (piccola e media impresa, anche se per questo l'Italia ha una storia divergente).
Consideriamo una laurea, delle conoscenze come il mezzo di produzione di un laureato, ebbene tanto il fisico nucleare quanto il piccolo imprenditore sono Capitalisti.
In questo senso in Italia il terziario è al 60% in USA tipo al 70%
Nella nostra società quando si parla di terziario si parla di lavori "inferiori" per la maggior parte.*
Ma diciamo semplicemente che il proletariato si è ovunque diviso, in America sarà più appropriato parlare di piccoli ricchi e poveri invece che piccoli Capitalisti e proletari ma la sostanza è la stessa.
*esempio italiano, nei servizi la maggior parte dei lavoratori (servizi che superano l'industria) svolge questo tipo di lavori secondo l'ISTAT
Commercio all’ingrosso e al dettaglio,
riparazione di autoveicoli e motocicli
Trasporto e magazzinaggio
Attività dei servizi di alloggio e di ristorazione
Istruzione, sanità e assistenza sociale, attività artistiche e altre dei servizi (questi li ho separati perché può essere il professor e universitario come la maestrina elementare, amenità varie ma sono per lo più gente piccola come quella sopra).
Cioè, parliamo di camerieri, commessi, meccanici, trasportatori, immagazinatori, gente che pulisce alberghi e spazi vari insomma sono stato esaustivo.