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        Antonio Fallico: Russia is ready for the current difficult                                                               solving the problem in a positive way. It is necessary
        economic trials                                                                                                          to develop a  new,  more  equitable  social platform.
                                                                                                                                 Otherwise, the world will go to a social disaster.

               What  kind  of  economic                                                                                                 There is a point of view that the current coronacrisis,
        condition  will  the  countries  face                                                                                    at  least  in  its  economic  part,  is  a  continuation  of  the
        after  the  crisis,  which  threatens                                                                                    2007-2008 crisis. Why?
        Russia and the EAEU, the president                  Now many experts and analysts say that the world
        of Conoscere Eurasia Association,            after the pandemic will not be the same as before. Do you                          Antonio Fallico: The financial crisis that began
        chairman of the Board of Directors           agree with that?                                                            in the USA in 2007 and then spread to the whole world
        of Intesa Bank Antonio Falliko told                                                                                      was  not  an  ordinary  business  crisis,  like  previous
        in an interview with RG.                            Antonio Fallico:  The  current  pandemic  has  not
                                                     become  the  root  cause  of  socio-economic  problems.  It                 cyclical failures over the past 30 years. It was a crisis
                                                     sharpened those that were viewed for a long time, adding                    of  a  model that  stopped providing economic  growth.
                                                     individual specific elements. A global economic downturn                    Until 2007, the  world economy grew at  4% per  year,
                                                     was expected, but a little later. This is not the first year                we will  not talk  about  the  Chinese  pace  at  all. Then
                                                     that we have seen contradictions between globalist and                      the indicators fell, but in fact, in the following years, a                   10% of the population in 1995
                                                     protectionist tendencies,  we see  a  constant  increase                    period of economic stagnation began, which was flooded                        owned 18% and 49% of global
                                                     in  non-economic,  non-market  forms  of  competition,                      with cheap money to avoid the worst. Before the start                         income, respectively. In 2016,
                                                     including sanctions, tariff restrictions and so on. Today we                of the current problems, Germany was promised at the                          the  top  1%  and  top  10%
                                                     experience exactly the same thing, only in a strengthened                   end of 2020 a little more than 1% growth, Italy - zero                        already owned 24% and 62%
                                                     form. As part of the fight against the spread of coronavirus,               with tenths of a percent. Such indicators, one can say,                       of global income, respectively.
                                                     borders  are  being closed everywhere,  economic  egoism                    are within the statistical error. Both economic growth,                       And  as  of  mid-2019,  the
                                                     is appearing, many industries and  types of  economic                       and its subsequent slowdown, and the growth of social                         wealth of  the  top 1%  more
                                                               activity are stopping, people are losing jobs and                 inequality were caused by a bias in development towards                       than  doubled the  wealth  of
                                                                   incomes,  and  some  trends  are  becoming                    financial speculation. Such a process began back in the                       6.9 billion people on Earth! At
                                                                    disastrous. Experts more than usual compete                  1980s, but by the zero years of this century it had finally                   the same time, directly labor
                                                                     in describing scary scenarios.                              taken shape. In 2007, the assets of financial institutions                    brings  less  and  less  income,
                                                                                                                                 were one and a half times higher than global GDP. In                          but  the  role  of  financial  rent

                                                                     How will this affect the social sphere?                     industrialized countries over the years, financial sector                     is growing.  Such  a  model
                                                                                                                                 revenues have grown faster than others. At the same                           of    economic       development

               Antonio Fallico: The social sphere does not remain aloof from these tectonic shifts. It is                        time, social inequality began to increase sharply.                            leads  to the  fact  that  the
        appropriate to recall the unjustly forgotten idea of Marx on the alienation of labor (alienazione                                                                                                      growth  of  labor  productivity
        del lavoro). He believed that in the context of the growing division of labor, man becomes a                                    How do you see the social picture of the future?                       and  income  lose  their  link to
        part, an appendage of production, and singled out 4 types of alienation: from the labor process,                         Can social inequality decline or increase?                                    collective social and economic
        from the product of labor, from his own essence and people from each other. Labor becomes                                                                                                              development. We are moving
                                                                                                                                        Antonio Fallico: The growth of social inequality
        a  commodity;  it is sold for  wages.  The                                                                               has  become an  integral part  of  the  current  stage  of                    away      from      the    money-
        manufactured product is separated from the                                                                               economic development. It is caused not by stagnation,                         commodity-money            scheme,
        person who participated in its manufacture.                                                                              but  by  the  prevailing  model  of  the  economy,  social                    we are moving to the money-
               The     previous      neoliberal     system,                                                                      relations,  income  distribution. Inequality  has  grown                      money  scheme.  The ability
        which dominated before the crisis of 2007-                                                                               everywhere. On a planetary scale, the top 1% and top                          to  generate  collective  wealth
        2008, for many years even more profoundly                                                                                                                                                              disappears,  a  gap  occurs
        changed  the  content  of  labor.  There  was                                                                                                                                                          between  capitalist production
        an  impairment,  structural  deterioration.                                                                                                                                                            and  democracy.  One  should
        Remember  the  fashionable  English words:                                                                                                                                                             stop  giving  rise  to  ever  greater
        lean  production,  outsourcing,  just  in  time,                                                                                                                                                       economic inequality, social breaks
        new  management  ...  This is also  about                                                                                                                                                              leading to radicalism and loss of
        the  alienation of  labor.  As  a  result,  social                                                                                                                                                     orientation. The world needs  an
        inequality itself has not only intensified, but                                                                                                                                                        alternative model of economic
        also deepened - between different regions of                                                                                                                                                           development.  The  economy
        the world, between individual states, within                                                                                                                                                           should be put at the service
        individual states, and even within individual                                                                                                                                                          of the person who would be at
        social groups. This phenomenon is becoming                                                                                                                                                             the  center of  the  production
        increasingly threatening.                                                                                                                                                                              system.  At  the  same  time,
               We are faced with an alternative: either                                                                                                                                                        a  modern  economy  must  be
        alienation will intensify, or we must lead the                                                                                                                                                         circular, stable and solidary. It
        matter  to overcoming this contradiction.                                                                                                                                                              is difficult, but possible.
        The current crisis creates the conditions for                                                                                                                                                                  Digitalization,  augmented
                                                                                                                                                                                                               reality,  the Internet  of  things


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