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Despite numerous past efforts at reform, Italy continues to have a notoriously inefficient public sector in which workers enjoy iron-clad job protection regardless of productivity or performance.
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Italy's ambivalent attitude to public sector shirkers may partly explain the success of a comedy film currently smashing the country's box office records, in which the unlikely hero is a state worker who will go to any lengths to hang on to his generous benefits.

I'm guessing it's this.

Theft in Italy is now legal if you really, really need the thing you're stealing.

We do a similar thing here in the U.S. with emergency healthcare.

TPRJones wrote:We do a similar thing here in the U.S. with emergency healthcare.

We do a worse thing here with bankruptcy law.