The new director of the Directorate for Technological-Industrial Development Zones, Jovan Despotovski, was surprised "in a negative sense" when he saw the salaries of the employees in the technologically advanced companies. The director of the PRO Sanja Lukarevska is determined to reveal violations of the law in companies where the bosses distributed salaries of 30.000 and 50.000 euros each, and gave the workers a "minimum", even salaries of 5 denars. And the former director of the Agency for Electronic Communications, Robert Ordanovski, publicly complains that his wife is leaving him because he no longer has a director's salary.

These events from last week can actually be a sublime of our reality - uncontrolled and omnipotent businessmen and a state management class that is established in the country according to a party key, and has huge powers and privileges, state payment cards and deals with financial transactions a lot greater than they can afford with a salary, even if she is a director.

In such a situation, it turns out that for foreign directors it is not very strange that they gave shamefully low salaries in companies that work for the most famous and most expensive names in the automotive industry. According to the principle - if someone does not respect his people, why should a foreigner respect him? What is astonishing is exactly that - how did the Macedonian boss become so insensitive, how can a person who receives a salary of 50.000 euros look the worker in the eye after transferring 5 denars as the minimum wage? How did he forget all the upbringing that the previous generation had and which he passed on to the one that now "rules"? Where did they disappear, how did they forget about morality, elementary empathy, humanity?

Of course, in no country in the world where there is a market economy, there is no law that will oblige the bosses on how to form their price, how to determine their salary. As Professor Vancho Uzunov says, to tell the boss how much money to take for himself and how much to give to the employees is to demolish the idea of ​​private property.

In that emphasis on private property in the market idea, the fact that all those workers participate in the construction of that private property is lost somewhere. Yes, the boss had the idea, he had the capital, he had the knowledge, maybe the connections in the business world, but he could not do everything alone. But, because of that, he could grab a large part of the cake, which leads to the empirical data that Macedonia has the highest profitability in Europe. And, of course, there is a flat tax. The idea of ​​progressive taxation was abandoned with lightning speed. The law has been idle for a year, it should be idle for three, but who knows, it will someday see the light of day. In fact, former finance minister Dragan Tevdovski and his adviser Branimir Jovanovic were "victims" of big business lobbying for the idea of ​​a middle class through the progressive tax, one now at the World Bank in Washington and the other at the Institute for Economic Analysis in Vienna. . The expectations of Professor Uzunov, who spent a lot of time explaining SDSM's idea of ​​the middle class, at a time when the party was in opposition, were also betrayed.

In the meantime, unfortunately, nothing has changed. Neither the private bosses have become more human and taxed, nor the state less privileged and oil-rich.