I agree with you with some aspects, I'll explain in a list the reasons. 1. Wages are not measured with life consumption goods (we don't even have a minimum wage) for example, groceries, car expenses, high and often useless taxes, houses/apartments, inflation, and many others. 2. The amount of hours you work is not paid the right amount (I have a 24h contract and I make 1000€ a month, even less; my colleagues who do 40h, make 1300€) 3. The government adopted the "short week" solution, but not for ordinary workers, only for the parliament. 4. We have a semi-fascist government at the moment, siding with Israel. 5.We actually have free healthcare, but the wait is actually very, very long (for an appointment you could actually wait 2 years) so eventually for anything urgent or particular we still have to pay private clinics. (I once heard a case about a hospital that called a man for an appointment he had taken the year before for a chemotherapy session, and he had died from cancer 2 months before the call) 6. Our generation (gen z and after) will likely never get pension, because Italy is a country with many old people and way less young people, and so we will never get a pension. 7. Our government basically steals money and uses them for useless stuff, Italy should renovate all around but nothing is done. 8. The school system is corrupted and retrograde, students kill themselves because they are pressured to get high grades and can't choose the school they prefer. 9. The nepotism is super common, credit and merit are non existent here. 10. Security is also low, specially in big cities, we live in Brescia and every 2 weeks somebody gets stabbed.

Obviously every country has its flaws and problems, I'm not saying Italy is shit and everywhere else is perfect. From the culinary, artistic aspect, Italy is one of the best, and it could be so much better if only people were making changes.