[JimNortonFan]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...proud.html

Youth unemployment is 35% but they don't want to work hard. at making pizza.

Those who believe hard times will improve morals might want to reconsider. Or maybe we're talking real hard times:



From the article:

"We are good at it because we are prepared to work hard. Italians, in contrast, want a nice comfortable office job where they can work six hours a day, five days a week, in air-conditioning. They're not prepared to work 10, 12 hours a day." Alessandro Rossi, who runs another pizzeria in Rome, is also surprised that Italians refuse to take up an occupation that is part of their cultural DNA, especially as unemployment among young people has reached 35 per cent.

"The Italian mindset is that being a pizza-maker is humiliating, it is a manual labour job," he said. "Young Italians want to own 40,000 euro cars and wear nice clothes but they are not prepared to work for it. So the gap is being filled by the Egyptians, the Filipinos and the Arabs."

So what happens when the immigrants get taxed to pay for natives who won't work?

[Lemmo]

Meh. I don't necessarily buy the spin provided by the Egyptian immigrant. You hear the same things in the US media ("Americans won't do these jobs!") and it is generally just an attempt to justify easy borders and cheap labor.

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who would prefer a 12 hour shitty paid pizza job, if he can have something more comfortable?

[WestIndianArchie]

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