Root Cause

Root Cause

By: Erreh Svaia

Caprine Dispersion

Regarding the problems of the country, we continue to try to correct the symptoms and we do not realize where the roots of our evils really are, corruption, dishonesty, insecurity, inequality become some of the factors that both the old and the new administration used and will use to build their agenda, away from real causes, the old administration diagnoses issues such as corruption as something cultural, while the new administration places corruption as the central axis of all the problems of the Mexican.

An important part to solve any problem is to identify the root cause beyond just alleviating the symptom, otherwise, the most likely thing is that the source of the problem is still there, and then we end up with a bigger problem, because we cannot change the situation of our "patient", in this case the same country that has been dealing with these problems for decades without the administrations in succession having been unable to resolve it, provoking after the year 2000, when the so-called "perfect dictatorship" was broken, a great disappointment of the supposed "democracy" acquired by the country.

And that´s the issue with security and corruption, seeing them as symptoms without having the cause root, the true origins of these, impunity, above all, a "corporatist" system that made "accomplices" to virtually every sector of the country, a corporatist system that gave birth to the hegemonic PRI that we met from his birth in times of Lázaro Cárdenas, a system in which military, politicians, businessmen, trade unions, peasants and other sectors of the population lived together, where impunity was guaranteed in exchange of complicity, if you were complicit, you could hardly denounce corruption and it was harder to punish it, hence the rampant impunity giving fertile ground for corruption, insecurity and other worse issues that were developed.

Another issue that should become key in the national agenda besides impunity, is informality, a theme that in a few months or in the first years of the new government will become more and more visible, as a thermometer of why such a good path we will go through. next years, how can the tax system be configured to include all the country in the taxpayer base? The IVA (Added Value Tax) would be one of the most efficient ways to reduce this gap between the population, not the consumption tax over the productivity tax that we currently have, the orientation of the productive sector to the welfare of the whole country through taxes, true competitiveness of markets by eliminating unfair competition, worker protection through the formalization of their employment, the elimination of bribes, difficult to detect in a non-formal sector, etc., we want to address issues such as social inequality, salaries and social security? We need to combat informality head-on and efficiently, not to address this issue will continue to exacerbate the issue of inequality, the issue of corruption, the issue of insecurity, the issue of the country's economic strength and the issue of the strength of the social security system.

Another key issue is that of education, beyond the myopia that is intended to sell with singular charm about diminishing perceptions or dismissal of large parts of the bureaucracy (which is in the formal sector, by the way), is the issue of education What type of professionals are being trained in universities, and how productive are they? Is the country creating first-class professionals who can compete creating value like the professionals of Germany, Switzerland, France, Singapore or South Korea, or are we only creating cheap labor to compete with China, or India? How prepared are the professionals to be able to generate value and justify their salaries? As it must happen with education professionals, how is the public service being evaluated? As education fulfills its function of enabling graduates to create value, and not just being one more piece of the labor link we can see productivity increase and that's where part of the government's work will begin to keep those professionals in key positions and well paid, otherwise, we get stuck in the cycle of mediocrity, we educate poorly to have cheap labor and pay bad salaries, so the problem is not solved, it is not solved by opening the doors of universities to all whoever wants to enter them, not apt, does not stir up building classrooms left and right, we have already seen how these works are used to divert resources, education, with technological developments nowadays no longer requires classrooms, but penetration and access to the network to the remotest places in the country.

We should not get lost with the symptoms, but detect and attack the root causes, fight impunity, informality and increase the real quality of education, is imperative at this time.

A good wish more? Reduce campaign time, reduce the time the president-elect takes office, reduce authorized advertising to parties and reduce the budget allocated to each of them.