Italy’s Radical Solution to Extreme Inequality
Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
Many thanks to the Bologna Film Commission and the City of Reggio Emilia for the support and for the assistance.
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@skankhunt420
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
0.001% of the global population, about 60k people, own and control more than the "lowest" halve of the world's population, about 4 billion people.
If we'd tax 1% on billionaires alone, we could end the world's hunger.
If we'd tax 2% on anyone worth more than 100 million dollars we could have ON TOP:
Universal Primary Education > ~$150 Billion > Covered
Global Green Energy Transition > ~$200 Billion > Covered
Basic Healthcare for All > ~$100 Billion Covered
@elaineisabelle427
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Everywhere in the world 🌎 is literally run better than the USA.
@fatimacastro8354
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
0:15
Just got a gelato omg 😮
@setigame
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Very nice documentary, thanks!
@jaituteja8323
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Really good idea and method
@ashleyd2145
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
its almost like private equity and ceos destroy everything they touch.
@olivia4087
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
there's so many of us here in America who question the system- yet how do we move to change the system?
@Horses6790
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
How rich are you making all these videos? With over1.3 million subscribers. How much are you donating to less fortunate people? How big of house how many cars do you have?
@ronnieshirilla
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Anybody else notice the cow named Obama at 3:41?
@orafaelbaldo
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Look… Americans are discovering Cooperatives
@xyzcv1998
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
"The moment you punch that time clock, you walk into a dictatorship." – Jacque Fresco
@НиколайЛамберт
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Italy is blessed land. Amazing weather, seas, fertile soil.
Bithplace of western civilization. In middle ages solitary city-states managed to be richer than average kingdom.
How there are poor people?
@victorcastellanos7508
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Is so great to find American Youtubers that makes this conent! We need more like this! Have my all support! Thanks! <3
@dressmaking
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
13:44 che bell'accento toscano!
@flo2348
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
the significant difference from unions is a big plus.
@ScooterGirlsTechSupport
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Meanwhile I'm here at my McDonald's trying to get people to be willing to tell the manager that she needs to listen to us or she'll run the store into the ground – and they are too afraid to even do that, even we all agree that is what is going on
@WorkWork8187
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
I love how nobody is talking about that this is literally communism
@bettinadanielsen6348
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
you lost me at naples, I really love Italy, but i did not feel safe in Naples, even though I know what you mean, its still authentic
@11Evalone
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Thanks for sharing
@laurenwilliams777
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
If your American you’ve been fleeced. Wool straight over your eyes. You don’t get good food, you get poison, which you pay a premium for. #BrokenEconomy
@fernflowerss
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
So wait, let me understand. The factory was running smoothly since, at least, the eighties. Then bought out by foreigners and forced to close? Well that's just economic colonialism, we got pushed out of the way to make space for people in another country. Good on the factory workers to fight.
@StreetSmartMillionaire
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
Lets take it a step further and show concern for the cows that are in a slave camp.
@jlr99
March 18, 2026 at 1:20 am
the US has farmer cooperatives too
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