Competition and Progress
We are standing at a crossroads, in a globalized world that hardly resists the sovereign debt crisis. The economic model of recent decades, causing endemic unemployment in developed economies and slavery in emerging countries, based on a strong competition for jobs between individuals, companies and states, welfare, profit or dominant political positions, which gives access to resources. Unfortunately this competition is very tough in many cases and does not show the same degree and the same rules in Romania and that’s because of bureaucratic mechanisms, also due to the large influence of the state upon the economy, having disastrous effects on living standards, but especially to motivate young people, middle class and entrepreneurs, the most dynamic segments of the Romanian society.
State restructuring, modernization and adaptation to the realities of the contemporary world is very slow and only made at a declarative level, it resembles a dusty note of the nineteenth century compared to modern vehicles of today, as most European countries can be considered today.
Lack of legal framework and of a favorable economic and social environment conducive to fair competition brings us out of the trend followed by civilized people and further condemns us to a low standard of living. We’re not facing now the most favorable prospects for generations to come, which will further lead to the phenomenon of migration of “brains”.
We should understand as soon as possible, from the governor to ordinary citizens, that between honest but fierce competition and progress there is a close connection and this is the only way to wealth, as today’s world shows.
Dr. ec. Adrian Crivii, MAA, REV, FRICS