Economy: Version Juan Pueblo

Economy: Version Juan Pueblo

Every time we have had the opportunity to address issues related to economic activity, our main concern has been to highlight the human face that motivates, makes it possible to influence and above all, that suffers the impact that the fate of the economy, in its metamorphosis from macro to micro, decanted and influences the purchasing power of those who live and interact in the flat base of the social pyramid.

This time, tell a story whose main characters are drawn from everyday life, flesh and blood characters, as you and I, dear reader, except that we prefer to preserve their identity, using the famous phrase of feature films "The characters in this story are fictitious, any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental."

We once said that the law and justice are not always similar orbits travel, for the simple reason that even though the justice determines that all are equal before the law, reality shows us that we are not all equal and that equal treatment, only achieved, further increasing the enormous gap that separates those who fail to meet their basic needs of those who barely subsist, drowned by the environment and marginalization.

It is in this light that we intend to place the characters in our history, with the addition that the same exception that we have done in relation to law and justice, we make it correspond to the concepts that each of us has ethics and morals, we would very naive to think that ethics and morality are synonymous.

Philosophical thought considered ethics as a set of values, hence it appears that when we say a person is ethical, it is because it is guided by principles and convictions. We say that has character and good nature.

As for morality, this is part of the actual life of each. It deals with the actual practice of the persons specified by customs, habits and accepted values. A person is moral when he acts in accordance with established customs and values ​​that may eventually be challenged by ethics. A person can be moral (follow the customs) but not necessarily ethical (due at the beginning).

Once these considerations, we can begin the development of these life stories, lives, acting under the influence of his environment, mimicking values ​​and customs, adopting attitudes which, as we appreciate not always coincide with what society as a whole , understands and values ​​such as ethical conduct.

Let's see:







When the state from its economic leadership, issues regulations governing business activities, imposed as a condition unavoidable, the registration of employer control agencies, where they issue the corresponding authorization, upon affidavit, stating: Identification of Holders, Date, Branch of activity, location of local sales taxes that is required taxing and social security contributions for Social Security concept, Owners and personnel, if any.

This I mentioned, is to know what are the requirements of the law and are to be met, of course, for those who intend to venture into the business, rights and obligations are determined in a regulation that aims to ensure its implementation fair controls both for the employer, that's who performed the activity, and for the State, which provides the share of income that corresponds to the company for such empowerment.

Needless to say, that anyone who becomes a businessman, for itself and for itself, bypassing these regulations, act outside the law, is a marginal developing a clandestine activity within the informal sector, it is noteworthy that in our environment, the informal market, reaching and exceeding 40% (forty percent) a number of real concern for any economy fairly organized.

The characters that are part of this story are drawn precisely this underworld that develops parallel to the formal world of regulations and for which we have described applies regarding: The Law and Justice, Ethics and Moral.

We will make this story a short story, a simple overview of events sufficiently explicit to help us understand a little better, the how and why, things happen that occur, actions taking place around us and yet not Despite being obvious, beyond the critical register of those who share them.

A finding that blatant ethics principles, diluted in the real actions of coexistence, is essentially moral, custom, and understand how to do the right thing, as a practical response to reality as possible.

We begin with Silvia, a middle-aged woman, who one day decided to do what many of his acquaintances, including his own sister had done, setting up his own independent business, so he sought a place to meet your needs locative, is provided merchandise traveling with their colleagues in Buenos Aires, following a safe route to cross borders secured at a reasonable price, and as an alternative supply every two weeks traveling Uruguayana border between Brazil and Argentina or Ciudad del Este in Paraguay.







In this way, was an entrepreneur in fact, the formal process of registration would be for later, when circumstances permitted, when operating costs leave him enough margin to absorb them.

When things got better, find someone to help her and so, at a stroke, as well as entrepreneurs felt was a patron, had someone under his authority, someone who had been treated treated as in the past she had come when sent to someone else, who forced wage dependency to obey, to clean the premises if he had to clean up, to run errands, whatever, and compel it to be at your computer all the time necessary to understand, How many hours? All possible, and if the employee did not like, that just was not going to miss another candidate who needed work and had been with her and well acted, could not find anything abnormal in his behavior, or objectionable, again, morality is the result of habit.

In this way, Silvia was linked to Mabel, her employee for all services, both said they were friends, however, when referring to the other in the social circles they frequented, the epithets used, leaving a harsh glimpse of discontent penalties content, is to speak ill of an employee and complain about what he does, is considered among the natural patterns, as well, to say that a pattern is a thoughtless and exploitative, is a logical reaction of those who perform tasks related to dependence.

Now, think about Silvia unionize, the association of merchants, or talk, that's also part of marginality, like Mabel, she claims her rights, but can not use the union to defend and represent

Whether one like the others, put forward their reasons, they complain and claim system, feel part of society, are part of the informal economy, their income is up to the great flow that moves the markets are like small dams causing constant drain on the resources provided by the fiscal policy of successive governments, who have taken shortcuts are provided in the mediate, but they have premeditated, without intending to provoke him, are part of the great mortgage their future condition.

Is that life histories as those described in this article are aspects of the same social fabric, a demonstration that informality and underdevelopment, are twin sisters, daughters of the ruling improvisation, which makes the rules with one hand, and elbow away by indifference to social reality that surrounds them.

Hugo W. Arostegui