Is the middle class really in decline, or is it still a "mixed salad"? Michele Magno's counter-current analysis

Il middle class Is it really declining in Italy? A Demos survey by sociologist Ilvo Diamonds he says yes but on "Il Foglio" Michael the Great, a former trade unionist for the CGIL and a politician for the PD, and now a commentator who is often unconventional and never banal, raises serious doubts and calls for avoiding simplifications. Magno regrets the acuity of the analyses on social classes of Paolo Sylos Labini, whose wonderful Faculty of Statistics at La Sapienza University of Rome has been largely dismembered by the usual academic squabbles. Magno does not even forget the studies of a worthy sociologist like Arnaldo Bagnasco According to the commentator for "Il Foglio," the middle class has never existed and is actually "a mixed salad." Rather than resorting to facile approximations, it would be worth focusing on "the widening gap between the upper strata (of the middle class) and the lower strata, or rather on the inequalities created by this gap." This gap is weighed down by the difficulties of the social systems. welfare These would require appropriate interventions from governments, which, unfortunately, prefer to remain stagnant rather than truly governing and addressing the problems at hand. These are our times, and Magno is right to remind us of this.