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[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Italy. Because you need a license to be a taxi driver, and a random company cannot hand them out (and the taxi drivers union is powerful and corrupt). And because the government gotta know who is renting a room where, you can't just go wherever you want without anyone knowing, especially foreigners. Whenever you rent a room in Italy, the owner will take a picture of your ID/passport, and send your data to the local government. Also you gotta pay taxes on the rooms you rent.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The only things we Italians we are good at is making many regulations, especially ones for safety lmao

See: building regulations

Rare Italian W

(Okay, maybe we are great at doing some regulations, we lack a lot of stuff that is normal for other countries and a lotta of rights...)

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, we are a bureaucracy machine.

People (especially us) often make fun of how convoluted our bureaucracy is, but this has made us extremely good at paper moving. If any country had a go at being us, they would collapse.