A few days ago, the streets of Venezuela became the stage for new mobilizations. Workers and unions took to the streets to demand urgent wage increases, a cry echoing the desperation of those living through a prolonged crisis. However, observing these events, the economy—much like life itself—reminds us that it does not obey desires or decrees, but rather the natural laws of cause and effect. In this context, we have forgotten a fundamental truth: "The Science of Asking."
Today, social discontent drives us to demand results—such as living wages and well-being—ignoring the fact that these are not magical events, but the fruits of a biological process.
The Analogy: The Error of Irresponsible Parenthood
I propose a metaphor to understand our crisis: society is the man, the economy is the woman, and well-being is the child.
Currently, a large part of society demands "the child" (higher wages) without having initiated "the relationship" (the construction of a solid productive capacity, legal certainty, and trust). It is a desperate attempt to force a birth without having gestated anything at all. You cannot ask the economy to deliver the fruit of a non-existent love.
Worse still, much like asking a barren tree for fruit, we demand abundance from a destroyed productive apparatus. If the structure is missing, if the tree is not properly planted, no matter how loudly we shout, the result will always be sterile.
The Stork Myth: The Betrayal of Leadership
Here lies my deepest critique of political leadership. A true leader is not there to applaud desperation; they are there to educate. By failing to guide society toward coherent demands, the leadership acts like someone telling a child that babies are brought by the stork.
They sell us the idea of "Stork Politics"—the illusion that well-being will fall from the sky through social pressure alone. By failing to explain that economic fruits come from "biology"—from hard work, investment, and respect for productive cycles—the leadership becomes complicit in the infantilization of society. They keep us trapped in a vicious cycle of empty demands.
The Consequences: The Abortion of Our Own Prosperity
What happens when we force this premature birth? The economy, like a living organism, collapses under the pressure. The consequences are devastating:
Galloping Inflation: Attempting to decree wages without productive value is merely gasoline on the fire of rising prices.
Closures and Unemployment: No business can sustain artificial costs; when the demand exceeds the capacity of the tree, the tree dies.
Erosion of Capital: We lose competitiveness and talent, leaving our economic soil barren.
Gestation and Time: Patience as a Virtue
Even when we do the right thing—when we finally decide to "initiate the relationship" and begin establishing the conditions for production—there is a factor we cannot bypass: the time required for maturation.
If we are on the right path and the seed of recovery is already gestating, impatience is our greatest enemy. If society, in a fit of anxiety, begins to strike at the womb of the economy because "the child" is not born as fast as they desire, the result is inevitable: the loss of the seed.
Irrational social conflict, fueled by a lack of political pedagogy, causes an "economic abortion." External stress kills the gestation before it can come to term.
As a society, we must mature. We must move from "asking" to "building." We cannot continue to be parents who demand children without a relationship. We must demand that our leadership explain the science of our reality, stop selling us storks, and help us prepare the climate, the land, and the patience necessary so that, this time, the birth is real, healthy, and sustainable.
The economy, like art, requires a sculptor who knows how to see the form within the stone, but who also knows how to wait for the chisel to do its w
ork. It is time to stop asking for the impossible and start gestating what is necessary.
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Author's Note:
All content in this article is 100% my own. Regarding the images used in this post, some are AI-generated, crafted from the themes and original ideas of my work, while others are authentic, original photographs.
Acknowledgement
Thank you for dedicating your time to read these words. As an "Escultor de Letras" (Letter Sculptor), I deeply value those who pause to question, reflect, and seek logic behind the chaos. Your attention is the first step toward a more conscious and prepared society. Let us continue sculpting a more solid critical thinking together.
David Gilberto Iriarte
Letter Sculptor
