The new PM of Italy looks like the solution all the world needs right now: a near-perfect anti-globalist nationalist leader.

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[–]ActuallyNot 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Hardline anti-immigration is bad for the global economy. Free movement of labour increases efficiency.

Hardline anti-LGBT is hateful, but the impact on productivity is small.

The concerns about retreating from democracy are valid and that would be very bad. Democracy is a shit system, but it's still better in the medium term that any of the other systems that people try.

Euroskepicism is probably bad for Italy. And for democracy. It weakens the block which makes it easier for China and Russia to bulldozer them on macroeconomics and geopolitics.

[–]ID10T 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

You are voicing opinions, stating them as facts. Where is the evidence to back up your claims?

[–]ActuallyNot 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Which one would you like a source for?

I can certainly give a source for the first sentence. The gains to GWP would be something like 100% if there was completely free movement of labour.

Hating on LGBT people is prima facie hateful. But only LGBT people are directly affected, so the negative impacts are capped at around the LGBT population.

I guess it might be worse for Italy than the globe as particular companies find the country unpleasant to work in, and so just set up elsewhere.

I certainly claim that democracy is a good thing, and the retreat from it that we're seeing should be resisted. If be interested in what your arguments are if you disagree with that.

The last one i state as an opinion. I'm guessing you're not talking about that one?

[–]ID10T 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Define hardline anti-immigration. You say it's bad for the global economy, which would depend on the definition but also require some studies to back that up. What about the local economy? Is free movement of labor the same as immigration, surely not all immigrants are interested in performing labor? Where do you get such a nice round figure as 100%?

How do you know this government will make Italy undesirable for companies? Perhaps they will offer other forms of incentives to operate there. Cheap immigrant labor is only one form of incentive.

How is a democratically elected government anti-democracy? Being pro or anti EU doesn't seem to have anything to do with democracy. In a democracy you would be able to leave the EU, as did the UK.