It might feel empowering demanding taxes to be spent in the richer areas instead of helping poorer areas: Zaia, Governor of Veneto and member of the anti-Europe, anti-Euro, anti-italian nation Lega Nord party, promoted the referendum demanding that "taxes in Veneto should stay here, not helping Sicily".
It probably is, at first. But in an economy of different parties, who produces more needs some buyers to keep growing. If there are not enough buyers, overproduction and economical collapse will knock at the door. You can see this trend internationally: we seldom see a country be an outlier in the yearly growth. Either all countries grow, or all countries decline. It is the % that changes. We saw this during the 2008-2012 crisis in particular.
It is in the interest of the richest areas to help the poorest. By doing so not only the average quality of life of a country increases. With less economical inequalities between regions, the once poorer regions are buyers of goods of the once richer ones.
While you correctly associated Lombardia and Veneto to Germany, you forgot to mention that after the WWII, Germany went split politically and economically. When it got re-united in 1989-1991 East Germany was economically very diverse from the more developed West. Our fathers were wiser: instead of doing referendum demanding taxes to be withheld in the West, they demanded to be taxed to help the East. [source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification#Cost_of_r... ] After 20 years those differences are still somewhat visible, yet they do not constitute a problem for Germany's growth and quality of life as a nation.
On the historical side it has been confirmed that 2/3 of the gold resources in Italy came from Regno delle due Sicilie [source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regno_delle_Due_Sicilie in Patrimonio e finanza section ]. Those lands are today's most rural parts of Italy, yet contributed the most to the wealth of Italy as a nation.
Nice article but i think it touches two problems, but then offers a solution to one.
Every program has a code structure. Certain programs have better code structure than others. These are properties independent from the programming language. Javascript evolved from a single entry point, being the [in]famous $.ready() to set behaviors of some html elements, to full blows ES6 single page applications.
I'm in the Web space professionally from 15+ years and those are the 3 rules i see JS devs break the most, generating complected code (for more understanding of the term have a look at https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy ), hard to maintain and extend like the example shown in this article.
The advice to build interfaces around data structures, proposed as solution, is no different than the Liskov Substitution Principle.
The other problem the article cites is the event loop.
At the time o $.ready() there was no event loop. Developers were just attaching functions to user events: clicks, hovers, blurs, focus. Just a direct mapping between an element and a function. You can simply come to the conclusion that the trigger and the action to be performed were not loosely coupled, but indeed tight together. Easy, yet not scalable.
Tieing events to the dom structure was another sin opening more questions: should an element that is not interactable fire events? bubble them ? every browser had its own answer to those questions. Things got even more complicated with single page applications which html element in the page can be added and removed. So here comes the event loop, like other well known ui stacks did in the past.
The concept of an event loop is not a novelty, it is indeed bound to the architecture of our computer: clock cycle, interrupts, kernel events. In the case of windows is the well known WPF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundatio...) which has, among a lot of other things like any Microsoft product, the concept of a dispatcher that is central to the flux architecture.
In 2015/2016 with React/Flux Javascript and the Web is moving out of puberty, enabling developers to write clean, decoupled, extensible code. Thus no all devs are ready to grasp those architecture that are so obvious in other ecosystems. To cite Poul-Henning Kamp in A generation lost in the bazaar (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257):
"So far they have all failed spectacularly, because the generation of lost dot-com wunderkinder in the bazaar has never seen a cathedral and therefore cannot even imagine why you would want one in the first place, much less what it should look like. It is a sad irony, indeed, that those who most need to read it may find The Design of Design entirely incomprehensible."
It probably is, at first. But in an economy of different parties, who produces more needs some buyers to keep growing. If there are not enough buyers, overproduction and economical collapse will knock at the door. You can see this trend internationally: we seldom see a country be an outlier in the yearly growth. Either all countries grow, or all countries decline. It is the % that changes. We saw this during the 2008-2012 crisis in particular.
It is in the interest of the richest areas to help the poorest. By doing so not only the average quality of life of a country increases. With less economical inequalities between regions, the once poorer regions are buyers of goods of the once richer ones.
While you correctly associated Lombardia and Veneto to Germany, you forgot to mention that after the WWII, Germany went split politically and economically. When it got re-united in 1989-1991 East Germany was economically very diverse from the more developed West. Our fathers were wiser: instead of doing referendum demanding taxes to be withheld in the West, they demanded to be taxed to help the East. [source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification#Cost_of_r... ] After 20 years those differences are still somewhat visible, yet they do not constitute a problem for Germany's growth and quality of life as a nation.
On the historical side it has been confirmed that 2/3 of the gold resources in Italy came from Regno delle due Sicilie [source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regno_delle_Due_Sicilie in Patrimonio e finanza section ]. Those lands are today's most rural parts of Italy, yet contributed the most to the wealth of Italy as a nation.
I highly suggest a read on this last historical matter: Terroni by Pino Aprile. You might find a different point of view. [ https://www.amazon.com/Terroni-Ensure-Italians-Became-Southe... ]