Pay-for-Venice is an example -- a bit less so for Italians -- and the hypocrisy of the commons is unbearable.

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Pay-for-Venice is an example -- a bit less so for Italians -- and the hypocrisy of the commons is unbearable.

Rome, May 6 -- No, it's not possible for a public good, a civic good, especially if it's the property of the whole nation, to become a kind of cage in which you enter by paying a ticket. It's not possible ethically, it's clear, because in a world in which municipal governments make money in any way, everything seems to be settled. It doesn't help to get the city council's hypocrisy that's been raging in recent months and even in the present, pro…