I don't read Spanish that well and was not sure what it is over but I think wages or employment. I almost know too little still to be posting much about economics here in Argentina but still I am amused. It appears to me that the Argentina people are almost bereft of economic knowledge. (U.S. people are a close second, or maybe they are neck and neck).
Business people anywhere in the world have to make a profit or why risk their investment or their effort? Most entrepreneurs work between 10 and 18 hours a day so they are also investing their lives as well as their own saved capital. With most entrepreneurs, no one handed it to them on a silver patter.. The income of the business allows for only so much wages. If an employee has a legally mandated paid holiday every time you turn around, THAT comes out of THEIR salary in the form of reduced wages to cover all the holidays..It does not come out of the employer's pocket. Or if their employer has to pay so much a month if he lays them off, then that employee is consigned to a lower salary. It has to be that was for business to survive and be worthwhile. There is not an unlimited amount of funds.
So the Argentina employee is being cheated, actually by all the benefits and holidays. I never know when I go downstairs if all the stores will be closed!. That's how serious it is. All those holidays are costing them income. But still it appears that they will vote for the politician who does that to them. It's awesome.
Of course this is not true of all. There are smart Argentines here. But the above is my observation much of the time. I have Argentines come here all smiles because of some new benefit Cristina has provided. These are not poor people. They are tax payers. I love to bait them and press for an answer of exactly who is paying for it and you should hear the conversation that follows. When they get right down to realizing THEY are paying it is often interesting the reaction. But equally amazing is in just a few months if it comes up again, they have forgotten it.
Plus in the process they have to also pay,out of that the thieving bureaucrats that administer these programs. Does that make sense? It does to them.
There is nothing in this world more interesting than human nature combined with economics!
