Italy is, well, Italy. Unlike the Northern Europeans, who integrated their peoples early on by extending government writ up and down river valleys into ever-larger polities and so take to things like supply chains naturally, the Italians were a series of disconnected city-states from the fall of Rome right up to formal unification in the late 1800s. Italian manufacturing is local, and viewed less as an industry and more as a point of artistic pride. Italians don’t do assembly lines, or even regional integration. They don’t manufacture. They craft. As such, any products that come out of the
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