Do you eat chocolate now or later?
Ali Sarzaim
In a famous experiment, children are placed alone in a room and a chocolate is placed in front of them and they are told that if they refuse to eat chocolate, they will be given two chocolates. Later, it was seen that those children who became their opponents and did not touch the chocolate, later found more and better academic and career success. The same can be extended to development.
On the day of Eid al-Fitr, believers congratulate each other for succeeding in abstaining from eating and drinking during the day for a month according to God’s command, and when they look back, they are proud of this success. .
When you talk to the people of developed countries, especially those who developed later than others, you see that they are proud of their situation and talk about their development with pride. Pride for being able to withstand the hardships of underdevelopment.
The fact is that personal growth and development also depends on waiting. In childhood, those who were able to overcome the temptation to play or watch TV and go to the hard work of studying, became excellent students and were able to become experts and provide a better life for themselves.
Development is due to the fact that a society refrains from the temporary sweetness of populism and can make better and longer-term choices. If individual excellence depends on religious piety and professional excellence against self-control over the temptation of playing games and watching TV, what is collective excellence dependent on? Do we have something similar to collective piety and collective self-control? Sociologists and economists refer to this issue and use the concept of social discount rate, that is, how hard or easy society sacrifices short-term benefits for long-term benefits.
A society that prefers higher employee salaries to construction budgets and infrastructure creation, a society that prioritizes consumer satisfaction over the loss of companies, a society that prefers printing money to government spending control, a society It does not have collective patience and piety, and has a weaker self-control mechanism, and for this reason, it has a high rate of social degradation. Such a society will be a short-term society.
What makes the society as a whole have higher patience and determination and is long-term, is the good quality of social institutions. High-quality social and political institutions help the society to be better against its short-term desires and not to sacrifice long-term interests. If people are not sure that they will benefit from their patience, they will not wait. Good institutions ensure that public resources are spent in line with people’s preferences and that people will be rewarded for their patience in the future. In the absence of good institutions, waiting patiently for short-term benefits is futile and the ground will be ready for the rise of populist politicians.
Let’s wish together and try for our collective institutions to find better quality, and we will be on the side of the forces that pursue and demand the choice towards long-term interests. If this happens, our collective Eid al-Fitr will arrive and we will congratulate each other for enduring the hardships of reaching Eid. In such a natural Eid, our country will be prosperous and we will be happy to have such a country. God willing, it will be so.
(Share to create)
@I_D_Network
@ali_sarzaeem
This post is written by Ssmh22