Our grandson #Yoursokiú’s face lights up when he sees us. Almost every day he asks to be picked up early from school/nursery/preschool. With the consent of the parents, we came to see him during the afternoon snack. When he sees us, he straightens like a spring, carrying a cardboard plate with two remaining graham crackers in his hands. He approaches us, but first, and surprisingly naturally, he throws the cookies and the plate into the small trash can placed between the four children’s tables. I start taking the cookies and in the exact voice of my dad and my third world heart I tell him, “No, love, food is not wasted!” Miss Baboo looks at me strangely, the children look at me strangely, the other “seacher” looks at me suspiciously. We left in silence, me with biscuits in hand.

Owls and crows

How horrible!, I commented to Santi. “And what are they doing?” he tells me. And of course, in a private kindergarten, in a neighborhood where nothing is missing, in the “Konitos world” of the suburbs, what do they do? I can’t store cookies because the hygiene rules are very strict (and people follow them); I cannot give them to another child because “leftovers” are not shared there. So the option is to throw food in the trash, a 5-year-old child knows that because he has been doing it since he was 2 years old because that is how he was taught. It doesn’t matter if the “agüella” is alarmed, the rules, norms, instructions are simply followed.

I read an article in which César Indiano, defender of Argentine candidate Javier Milei and “freedom”, asserts with certainty that capitalism is a system in which everyone has the same opportunities and that the state should not intervene in anything. Oh really? Will someone born to a poor, malnourished mother, who couldn’t or didn’t know she had to take folic acid during pregnancy, grow as well as someone who enjoys all the care, attention and prenatal vitamins?

Sincerity

Will someone who will eat what their parents give them to satisfy their hunger and not feed them, because they can’t or don’t know how, develop as well as someone who gets a balanced/adequate/nutritious diet?

And so I could continue to point out unequal opportunities in education, housing, healthcare, living conditions…

We will have to get out of these scourges. As? Only with education; when? I don’t know and I doubt that I will live to see it.

So no, Mr. Indiano, neither capitalism nor socialism provide equal opportunities. The first because it starts from the wrong premise of “equal opportunities”, and the second because its wonderful theory and good intentions are exhausted in the ambition and corruption of its leaders who do not stop living in luxury for a second while lying to them. them to the city; and today, the same people who do not live on love and revolution, are handed over to the drug trade.

The business of capitalism is poverty, and the interest of socialism. Both of them manage people like a herd, only the first are more knowledgeable, they sell freedom, illusions, consumption in excess.

We will have to get out of these scourges. As? Only with education; when? I don’t know and I doubt that I will live to see it. (OR)