{"id":209,"date":"2010-10-10T19:23:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.newcontrarian.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:23:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T17:23:17","slug":"sarpi-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Sarpi on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq6YhxC3LxsZaUXRf2mVZVY9FzRfdCrnOMywBJ7pQrvqUL-XE&amp;t=1&amp;usg=__LmDYoJLhRrQ_CbBvFrSvMTraNHA=\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitalism in a sack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is just a first impression. \u00a0And first impressions tend to mislead. \u00a0But a Sunday stroll on via Sarpi finds an amazing bustle of activity. \u00a0Fashionable, well-dressed people shop for shoes and crowd into grocery stores, arms full of fresh meat and vegetables. \u00a0Every shop is open. \u00a0A gaze into some shows that, beyond the storefront where wares are displayed, that there are many more rooms deep inside, extending all the way back into a courtyard. \u00a0Men rush into these courtyards with handtrucks stacked with heavy plastic bags packed with merchandise. \u00a0Window shopping aside, this is, of course, more or less how the neighborhood is \u00a0every weeknight. \u00a0Consumption and production thrive.<\/p>\n<p>The point to take away is that every one of these shops is Chinese. \u00a0Every single Italian shop is closed, which is totally normal for a Sunday, but the contrast is sharper given the amazing activity of the Chinese. \u00a0And I should point out that although the Italian shops are closed, plenty of Italian shoppers are around, looking at the shoes, cautiously examining vegetables at the market, getting take-out pasta or roast chicken from the deli that also sells barbecue ribs and fried squid.<\/p>\n<p>The first article of the Italian constitution is that it is a &#8220;<a title=\"italian constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.governo.it\/governo\/costituzione\/principi.html\" target=\"_blank\">democratic republic, founded on work<\/a>.&#8221; \u00a0The presence of a via Sarpi shows what kind of future Italy is being created today. \u00a0Those who ignore it will not be able to do so for much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a first impression. \u00a0And first impressions tend to mislead. \u00a0But a Sunday stroll on via Sarpi finds an amazing bustle of activity. \u00a0Fashionable, well-dressed people shop for shoes and crowd into grocery stores, arms full of fresh meat and vegetables. \u00a0Every shop is open. \u00a0A gaze into some shows that, beyond the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sarpi on Sunday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,33,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}