Neighboring Romagna stretches east along the Adriatic from the working-class resort city of Rimini to Ravenna, the former capital of Byzantine emperors. It evades altogether the easy dualisms of U.S. political discourse. We've been trained to believe that economics, politics and technology demand irreconcilable choices. In technology, when you choose your scale, you choose your standard of living. Rich areas have giant banks and global corporations while poor areas must make do with small firms.
Smallness simply signals a lack of development.
Politically, leftists may provide jobs and spread income more equally, but their egalitarian regimes wind up monopolizing power and bureaucratizing every area of life. You must choose freedom or equality. Finally, in economic systems, it's either competition or cooperation. Cooperation dulls the competitive instinct. Competition dissolves common bonds.