The businessman – The EC Republic

This leads the consumer to pay more for the products, to complicate the business and to be less competitive and productive. Reason: the government wants a thick slice. It requires it for its inefficiency or to maintain a corrupt regime that selects, by power, the winners of the private sector.

On some occasions it is a mere ideology. The same failed in the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and wherever it was applied.

Marx sold the idea that the entrepreneur sets the price and that only the product of the effort the worker increases profit. The only drawback is that Marx forgot the request. The price is set according to the law of supply and demand, which renders communist theory inconsistent with reality.

When demand exceeds supply, the price increases and vice versa. An increase in price decreases demand and increases the supply and the opposite. Price tends to stabilize when demand is equal to supply. This is not the entrepreneur who sets the price and earns the profit. If that were the case, we would all be millionaires.

Here's how an economic model works in freedom. Businesses collapse in totalitarian or populist models that have decided to fix the prices of goods and services, regardless of the costs, or the law of supply and demand. You must learn from history.

Revenues are generated by taking into account these principles and the work of each of the employees of a company, including the entrepreneur, who took the risk of undertaking, business, or business. hiring workers and getting

The contractor is another worker, who is often the first to arrive and the last to leave the company. Weekend work, if necessary, and sacrifice family savings and time to fulfill the obligations that a business generates.

Even the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the importance of creating jobs: "Everyone who works has the right to a fair and satisfactory remuneration," including entrepreneurs.

In this country, there is much talk of fostering entrepreneurship and private enterprise, but businessmen are hated. A contradiction that accentuates when, in some occasions, it comes from the officials.

It's time to start loving entrepreneurs. They play a fundamental role in society: they offer work, pay taxes and pay the expenses of many families in the production chain.

These are the entrepreneurs we are looking for. Nobody wants unfair competition from companies that do the opposite. Privileges, illegal and negotiated, are detrimental to business and to citizens who respect the rules of the game.

It is vital that we begin to change the Marxist ideas that were taught to us at school to facilitate the path to the formal entrepreneurs who contribute to the country Let us practice what we preach.