Is the only way to improve wages through the tax wedge? False. Dear companies, pay more

Yesterday the contracts, today the wages. There was a time when, on the labor front – a front on which in a daring way, as Valerio Valentini recounts in the newspaper today, the government managed to go down in commission, on the opinion on the new package of amendments to the “Labor” decree – the great taboo, the big elephant in the room, coincided with an untouchable totem: article 18. Those were the times in which people still debated whether it was right or not to trust entrepreneurs. Whether it was right or not to give more freedom to businesses. Whether it was right or not to create favorable conditions to allow an employer to have a more agile, leaner, more flexible contract, capable of not transforming every relationship with an employee into an eternal one.