What is the main source of immorality and corruption?
One of the main reasons, or perhaps the main reason for the promotion of corruption and immorality in our society today, is the high level of government concentration and involvement in the economy. As a result of these interventions and inefficient policies, our companies are heavily polluted today, and as a result, morality has disappeared from our markets.
The current structure is constantly producing rents and trying to make it transparent is not fruitful because the state economy is irreparable.
This corruption has caused even healthy companies to fall ill. As a result, healthy activity has become impossible.
When we talk about ethics, we mean behavior based on rationality and reasoning, taking into account that this behavior does not harm the interests of others. It is natural that people are allowed to strive for their happiness and prosperity and maximize their interests It is a fact that personal interests are tied to collective interests.
Where ethical theories are linked with economic behavior, they emphasize that everyone should be able to maximize their own interests, but the secret of ethical behavior is not to not maximize, it is to maximize our interests based on the interests of others and society. So the red line of an ethical economic activist is the loss of others and society.
From this point of view, unfortunately, our society and economy are not moving in a good direction. Ethics and morals have been lost behind wrong policies and ignoring freedoms. In a structure where the market does not work properly and the price is suppressed, first of all business ethics dies.
Interference in the free market ends up violating people’s freedom, right to choose and property rights. Government pricing, which is accompanied by coercion and security and judicial pressures, ends in nothing but limiting people’s rights and freedoms, impairing people’s right to choose, and disrupting voluntary contracts. According to Dr. Ghaninejad; When they force the producers to sell their product at a price lower than the equilibrium price of the market, they have actually violated his property rights.
The main solution is to end the state economic relations and respect freedom and the right to choose. In a society where there is freedom and the law is respected, morality becomes important, but in a society with a centralized economy, morality is marginalized.
Mohsen Jalalpour
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