Tomorrow there will be Presidential Elections in Romania. A big occasion for everyone to discuss who would be better fitted “job” and to throw arrow passionate arguments on why it matters to vote - your vote can take us out of the shit we’re in, bla bla. And from an economic point of view the situation is indeed grim.
For me it doesn’t really matter. Judging the “fight” between candidates and seeing them promise the whole world, IF they get elected is like watching a bunch of drunken monkeys in a break-dance contest. It’s really not worth my time and effort.
You see, people really want to believe that a Messiah can come in and fix everything. They are driven by this illusion. But I guess it doesn’t work that way. It’s foolish to believe this, almost as foolish as believing you can fix all your health problems by talking a pill. Are you overweight? Take the pill. Have high blood pressure? Take the pill. Cancer? Take 2 pills. Although everybody knows it doesn’t work they are willing to believe it will and guess what? There are, of course, multiple pill sellers.
Given that this is the 21st century you’d expect that by now the economy would be in hand of technocrats who would be more than capable to manage it. But that would be no fun. Instead it’s “panem et circenses”, bread and circuses.