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1. Apologies for the off-topic comment (ごめんね), but I though this was an interesting snippet in a BBC article about the up-coming Italian elections:

   [Giorgia Meloni’s] pledge to scrap a flagship Five Star policy, the citizens’ income – a social welfare system for those below the poverty line – splits opinion.

   The poorer south of Italy has benefited from it most and it is still a vote-winner for Five Star. But some, like Sonia Capizzi, follow Ms Meloni’s line that the policy has overburdened the state. “With the handout, people are just staying at home and not working,” says the cafe-owner. “The government should have created jobs instead.”

   Despite the fact that the people being interviewed seem to identify lack of jobs as a major problem, they are swinging to the party offering tax cuts as the solution…