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The stream's stone - The stream's bird

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While there are many reasons for the economic bottleneck we have entered in recent years, one reason might be the story below.

Let me tell you about a tragic theater I overheard during a coffee break at a business meeting.

A prominent businessman says:

I am a businessman.

My primary goal is to make a profit.

To grow my business.

To employ workers cheaply and get ahead of my competitors.

The nationality, race, or religion of the worker does not concern me much.

I look at the profitability and efficiency of my business.

I am after producing the highest quality at the lowest cost. By producing the product sought in the market at the lowest price, I must be ahead of my competitors.

I must pay as little tax as possible, if possible none at all, and reach the cheapest financing in the easiest way.

Speaking of financing, it reminds me of the loan I took out last year.

I received a million-lira investment loan from a public bank at a 10 percent interest rate.

The bank is sharp, of course; it didn't send the loan to my account.

It asked for the invoice of the raw material I would buy for the production I was going to do.

It made the payment directly to the company issuing the invoice.

Well, the bank is sharp, but aren't we?

I didn't take the goods from the company that issued the invoice; I asked them to sell them to someone else.

And in exchange for a small kickback, they returned my investment loan that the bank had sent them to me through the back door.

Now, I have deposited the loan I took at 10 percent interest back into another public bank at 60 percent interest.

I have postponed the production business to an indefinite date.

However, if I had produced; I earned 10 times more from interest without lifting a finger than I would have earned after deducting worker salaries, taxes, and other expenses.

Well, why should I vote for anyone else?

As long as we continue to kill the stream's bird with the stream's stone, it seems unlikely that we will emerge from the crisis spiral.