Where the economic logic of Samir Manes' interview chats!

In an interview published several days ago in Opinion, one of the richest people in Albania shared with the public some details about how he got where he is today. His communication conversation marked a point: I have become rich in Austria and have come to Albania with several million euros in my pocket to invest the wealth I made there. In fact, if you heard the interview, understand that Mane was enriched, not by Austrians, but by Albanians. He himself confessed that trade started by buying television free in Austria and then selling 3-4 times more expensive to Albanians. It came to Albania and its income has only multiplied.

Mane described himself as a man born to do business, who had tried and when he was a student in Tirana. This sentence gives you the image that he's good at this field and smell. This consisting seems contradictory if he wears another sentence that he later said: sold the Bulqiza mine because he was unable to follow international market companies. So when market prices are driven by scholarships, where everything is transparent, free, and required of knowledge, it is not very good.

But where has Mr. Samir Mane been? In countries with closed markets. Most of its trade is in Albania, the region and eastern countries. He said more than half of his group's income is generated in Albania.

He's building a residence in the United States and showing it as a safe place to get construction permits. Yes, America is a country that has economic freedom that we do not have. But there the state does not give you free land, so Samir has chosen Albania before the US. There the state won't let you have a bank, be a builder, lend a bank to the apartments you sell in the air. This is where everyone closes their eyes, minister, central bank, inspectors, anyone.

He said he chose not to be part of public tenders, but that's not entirely true. His company has become shareholders in several projects after other firms have won the race. But even tenders don't have what it takes as long as it builds where nobody can do it, and the state leads the way, the airport, the power grid, and it sells at prices of competition.

Although the richest man and the largest group in Albania -- 755m euros in revenue for 2021 -- the charity budget is 2m euros. Only 0.26% of income, when the standard for implementing corporate responsibility policy is above 2%.

Finally, it called for young people not to get involved in the idea of quick enrichment through illegal roads, as it was enough to read statistics that say “98% of those who have attempted these roads have badly ended”. The point is, those who got rich and didn't get caught, who knows how much? Police or a court that didn't punish them? Not that the call is wrong, but I'm surprised that conspiracy theories convince a man who should be among the wisest in the theories of the economy applied.

But apparently his wealth is not related to the theory, but to the creation of a enrichment scheme built on the logic of monopolies and the destruction of competition.

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I wouldn't have written these lines if it wasn't for the propaganda of the idea that “enriched me in Austria, I came to invest in Albania, and now I'm getting too big going to America”. The opposite is true: it was enriched in Albania and the money it made here is taking them out! /Take from author's Facebook