Sometimes I wonder… I come from two Milanese industrialist families who worked hard to keep their factories going (and failed in one case due to, literally, natural causes aka a dam disaster) and, reading the responses to my LinkedIn post about salary dumping in Ticino, I cannot reconcile it with anything I have ever heard from my parents or grandparents.

This bizarre concept that it is the workers and the international treaties which somehow "force" the companies to use cheap labour is spectacular.

Of course my families tried to run a profit but, in one case, literally financed one of the most skilled workers to set up their own shop and become a supplier with a guaranteed 5-yr 100% purchase cover before they could work alone (their family is still in business!), the other spent literally almost all their fortune to provide for the worker families hit by the disaster.

I should add that my grandfather's idea of "owner luxury" was going on holiday in Rimini for two weeks, having a large apartment in a new development towards Milan Linate airport, and driving an Alfa Romeo Alfetta, not "two yachts, three Ferrari, five villas." That might explain things...

Having said this I was brought up in a left-wing family and the only comment when I said I was an Ⓐ was "perhaps too much?" which is fair :)