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Italian heavy machinery (agricultural, wood and metal processing, construction) was pretty popular a couple of decades ago, simple and reliable, nowadays it's a

• eecc 9y ago
  Decline. An all-me hedonistic generation didn’t want to let go and retire, and kept the X and the Millenials at the door. Italy is now stuck in a 20 year long Groubdhog Day bitterly bickering about Berlusconi, corruption, The Crisis and Reforms (selling the last nails of the house before finally going bankrupt.) it’s a disaster... I have no words for the amount of regret for the missed opportunities... but to be honest, it’s the Italian true spirit: a bit sleazy, servile, unwilling to take any risk to the point of being a hostile reactionary. See Adriano Olivetti’s life and what came of his legacy.
  • pokemongoaway 9y ago
    In terms of it making a come back... Why would it when the ambitious could just go somewhere with lower taxes to reduce risk of testing their ideas?
    • eecc 9y ago
      I don’t understand where you get this obsession against taxes: It’s not the problem! Corruption, cronyism, backward selection process, those are the real bugs, not just taxes. Besides, in Italy they are high but only for the lower middle class, the well connected elite has been getting a free pass since forever
• doozy 9y ago
  Was? Italy is one of the main heavy machinery producers in the world. They own CASE and New Holland.