{"id":4428,"date":"2010-05-28T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T08:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/en\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2015-01-26T20:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T18:16:45","slug":"economic-recovery-requires-some-modesty-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/2010\/05\/28\/economic-recovery-requires-some-modesty-as-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic recovery requires some modesty as well\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tWhile the big cities are ready to empty due to Monday&#039;s national strike (which is transformed to &quot;3 days vacation&quot; by many people), I remain in Bucharest, thinking about two stories. They happened this week and really fascinated me (although did not surprise me, everything is possible in the Balkans&#8230;)\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\" type=\"disc\">\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/stirileprotv.ro\/stiri\/eveniment\/cum-au-fost-identificati-hotii-din-arad-isi-dadeau-dedicatii-in-discoteca.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Two thieves in Arad were arrested, because after the robbery they went to a disco and started dedicating songs to each other<\/strong><\/a>. What kind of dedications? &quot;To the biggest bank robber&quot; was one of them (!) Just because they stole from a bank 15.000 Ron (not even 4.000 Euro) they felt the strong need to advertise this &quot;achievement&quot;, they couldn&#039;t hide their feelings of superiority.&nbsp;\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\" type=\"disc\">\n<li>\n\t\tI heard in the news that someone bought a company which rents some commercial spaces in the center and then subrents them to<!--more-->other tenants. <strong>This gentleman appeared on media, declaring that he will kick out all the tenants from inside<\/strong>, &quot;because the space is mine and I can do whatever I want with it&quot;. <strong>Small detail: From what I know, his company&#039;s rental agreement with the owner does not allow him to kick out anyone like this<\/strong>.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t<strong>This reminds me the madness of 2007 &#8211; 2008<\/strong><br \/>\n\tThese stories and many others remind me of the glorious 2007 &#8211; 2008. When we were reading stories (almost every day) about people who were proud because they found ways to trick the others. Either local &quot;smechers&quot;, who were proudly explaining how they managed to gain money without hard work (investing it after on women, cars, trips etc) or foreigners who got trapped in the publicity game and they were explaining how they spent a fortune to invest on something and their plans to sell with even higher prices, securing very high profits. Today we all know that most of these projects have failed and&#8230; tons of money was lost. But we also notice that the majority of the society almost enjoys watching them losing.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t<strong>The market was hurt<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&quot;Clients&quot; are not an extraterrestrial species, living somewhere else. They are here and they evaluate daily everyone for what he offers, says, creates. With all these &quot;success stories&quot; the market was hurt. In the end of the day, how long can you last hearing around you that you must buy something in a high price, making rich a &quot;smart&quot; guy? Too many serious people considered themselves offended by all this &quot;super duper&quot; success that some people presented to them. And they decided to do whatever it takes, in order NOT to become &quot;victims&quot; as well. Because this is how they ended up feeling like.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t<strong>Recovery requires some modesty as well<\/strong><br \/>\n\tRight now Romania is in front of a critical point. There are too many problems to be solved and only difficult, painful solutions for the majority of the population. The last thing we need at the following period is to see again guys bragging for their ability to trick the others. This will be worse than you can imagine&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tI am not &quot;mother Teresa&quot;, I have also made my mistakes, hundreds of ones in fact. But I think that it is important for everyone these days to lower a bit his profile, avoiding to provoke the society with his lifestyle or his &quot;ability to trick&quot;. Let us all focus on our work, earning money by working and let the results speak by themselves.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tI am the last one who has the right to talk about modesty. And I don&#039;t intend to advise a society or a country, on the contrary. But on the other hand, now the discussion is not about me, but about the market and the recovery in the near future.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tTell me &quot;romantic&quot; or whatever else, but if we don&#039;t reorganize our market on healthy basis, it will not rise anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the big cities are ready to empty due to Monday&#039;s national strike (which is transformed to &quot;3 days vacation&quot; by many people), I remain in Bucharest, thinking about two stories. 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