“Maybe, there’s a difference concerning mental attitudes of cities that go under economically (like Liverpool, Detroit and Naples) and those who survive”
To be frank, the ones that survive are ones filled with:
Self respect
Self confidence
Self discipline
NOT:
Self esteem
Feeling like an entitled aristocrat
Paying attention to feelings and not facts
In Renaissance Florence 500 years ago, construction workers, smiths, cooks and so on had scars all over their body.
Not at least their hands. By viewing the scars a man's hand featured, you could tell his profession; this was called “mano di gloria” - hand of honor.
Io ho un mano di gloria (I have a hand of honour). I have worked as a lumberjack, as a cook and as an assembly line worker among other things.
I regret nothing.