What will be the next choreography that Minister Sergio Massa and the Undersecretary of Commerce will elaborate? Matias Tombolini announce a new price deal?
It’s also worth asking what new basket it will try to put together to fit into the schedule Fair prices.
The economy has entered a three-digit annual scheme, With which I no longer know what a price is, much less whether it’s fair or not. Price deals, your ads with a very attractive image design, that’s something choreographic and even theatrical. For them to work, the public – all of us and officials too – must suspend credulity. Like in the theater or the cinema.
What is it about?. Wikipedia sums it up: “Suspension of disbelief is an expression that represents the will of a subject to put aside (suspend) his critical sense, ignoring the facts and his knowable perception of reality in the work of fiction in which he is immersed, allowing him to enter and enjoy the imaginary world exposed in the work”.
It applies in full to price agreement announcements that have been submitted to the Kirchner Cultural Center. First it was a large basket, then importers joined in exchange for the guarantee of dollars at the official price, then sellers of popular cuts of meat, vegetables and fruit and even clothes. They didn’t work.
Nor are the scenes in which militants, mayors or trade unionists act as if they check prices on shelves or in distribution centres. Pure choreography.
Since Sergio Massa and Matías Tombolini have used price deal announcements as part of their personal political campaign, inflation has not stopped rising. For weeks Massa himself must have bet on the suspension of credulity to make the company believe that in March or April the CPI would “start with 3”.
Once to the former president ronaldo reagan They asked him if it was difficult for him, as an actor, to be president of the United States. Reagan replied that he had no idea how someone who wasn’t an actor could serve as president of the United States.
Argentine officials act as if they are doing something to lower inflation, but they know intimately that such agreements are useless. To justify “the 3 ahead”, Massa let it be known that in reality it was a way of “anchoring expectations”. The minister’s strategy is entirely understandable. Mass and suspend reality.
All of this comes just one year after President Alberto Fernández emphatically announced the start of the war on inflation.
Source: Clarin
