There was once a man named Pedro Larrusa, who was poor and had a family made up of his wife Argentina Lagos and several children of different ages. Some of their children worked but others were too young to do so.
However, the income of the entire family was meager and despite their efforts, they did not reach their economic goals. But one morning, Pedro woke up inspired. He had discovered how to solve his problems.
He dusted off an old printing machine he found there and started making his own currency.
He declared, within the scope of his family, that this currency was more valuable than the one regularly used in the country.
The children who had saved some money rushed to change their savings and their salaries just charged for the new currency.
Pedro opened an account in a bank in his name and I keep that money in it. Every month their children exchanged the money of their effort for the new currency.
Pedro stopped working and dedicated himself only to the exchange of currency.
The income of the house fell, but they all went to Peter’s account. Pedro gave money to his wife for purchases, but neither the butcher nor the supermarket accepted it.
Then Pedro declared that they had been blocked by the capitalist government.
They began to grow food in their small garden, but that was not enough to fill their plates and stomachs.
The children who did not work received high wages, because Pedro did not need more than to print more money to keep them happy. But those who worked began to feel that they had been scammed.
One day the family joined and decided to throw Pedro out of the house.
What happened is that Pedro left, but he had collected a lot of real money in the bank.
On the other hand, the family was poor and indebted, their money was worthless and they had to agree with the butcher and the supermarket to sell them on credit, while they recovered.
The youngest children, who had never worked, protested this situation and claimed for the father’s return.
This short story tries to explain very superficially the mechanism and the effects of monetarization in a country, a classic tool of the so-called popular governments.
My country, Argentina, fell for twelve years into the hands of a popular government.
The popular support regimes such as those of Castro or Maduro and argue that what is said about them is propaganda from the capitalist countries.
They have not understood that socialism is that of Russia, that of France and that of the Nordic countries, not those of Cuba or Venezuela, which are, in truth, popular tyrannies.
My country, Argentina, is condemned by this belief held by a part of the population that does not listen, does not read, does not educate and does not think for itself.
For them it is easier to blame the Monster of the North than to understand that the world has a mechanism, that although it is not good, it is the one that governs it.
Maybe we should learn how that machinery works, which many call the matrix and how we can modify it, because that is where the real problem lies.
As long as the people continue to be divided into parties (and this applies not only to Argentina, but to almost all poor countries) and focused on what the propaganda says, they will not be able to solve the real problem, which requires effort, self-interest and LEARNING HEAR.
