In the scientific world, the so-called “great disease of man” syndrome develops when a well-known researcher in one field develops strong opinions about another field that he or she does not understand, such as a chemist who determines that he or she is an expert in medicine. He is then a physicist who decides to be an expert in cognition. Many Sri Lankan business leaders who have been promoted to economic advisers seem to have the same syndrome. As entrepreneurs, they have to go back to school before they can express their ideas in a new field. The Sri Lankan rulers do not accept their own style of moneylender or rulers who are “jade-covered” that a businessman cannot build a country. As a result, powerful businessmen as well as thieves have become the rulers, directors and presidents of Sri Lanka and many professionals have forgotten their jobs and become businessmen.
College students who intend to do business are often majors in economics, but few believe they will use what they hear in the lecture hall. But over time, those students realize a fundamental truth. That is, what they learn in economics courses does not help them to run a business.
The reverse is also true. What people learn from running a business does not help them formulate economic policy. A country is not a big corporation. The habits of the mind that make a great business leader are not usually the ones that make a great economic analyst. An executive with $ 1 billion is rarely the right person to turn to for advice on a $ 6 trillion economy. But it is no secret that the ruling class in Sri Lanka, unaware of this basic truth, is still in the dark, thinking of Sri Lanka as their place of business.
Entrepreneurs or economists not only in Sri Lanka but in the whole world are generally not very good poets or artists. And many are not even successful business executives, at least not yet. How can a person who has earned personal wealth make an entire nation more prosperous? They are working to build their own things, not to build a country, a state or even their own servants. They have long been dedicated to him. There is selfishness, not altruism. In fact, their advice is often devastatingly misleading. Not to mention that Sri Lanka is the best example of that.
It is clear that these have not been properly identified by many journalists as well as media institutions in Sri Lanka. If it had been so identified, people like Kunu Dhammikala would not have been instructed to build a country. But it is also clear that many media institutions operate solely for the purpose of developing their own media business. They also fit in nicely, like a “jade cap”.
The general principles by which an economy should operate are as easy to understand but different as those applicable to a business. A fully-fledged executive in business accounting does not automatically know how to read national income accounts that measure different things and use different concepts. Personnel management and labor law are not the same thing. Nor is corporate monetary control and monetary policy. A business leader who wants to become an economic manager or an expert must learn new vocabulary and concepts, some of which are inevitably mathematical problems.
Sri Lanka, which was misled in that way, is still going astray. The ruling class, including the Sri Lankan executive, has yet to come up with any plan to rebuild the country. The same is true of government officials. They have no problem with the suffering of the people of this country as this devastation is no more a problem to them than a failure. That’s because they have it all. One of the main reasons for the devastation in Sri Lanka is the involvement of professionals in various businesses in addition to their paid government occupations.
By now, the entire health system in Sri Lanka has been destroyed. But the people responsible for them do not seem to have a law enforcement. Aside from the devastation of the health system, health officials also recently visited foreign countries. With all those allowances.
It is true that many doctors do their government service very well. However, the collapse of the hospital system due to a significant number of doctors is not happening from yesterday. Almost every doctor prescribes treatment in a private clinic before going to the hospital. Also, the medical laboratories in many cities are owned by doctors. All the facilities not available in hospitals are available in their channeling services. The hospital has all the facilities that a hospital does not have.
But they could argue that they were built with their own money. But if their business is to be built, the government hospital system should be built for the innocent, the poor and no one but the doctors who are paid by the government in this country.
True leaders must do their part for the people of the country, undermining the entire system. But the majority of leaders in this country, as well as many who receive government salaries, have set out to achieve their narrow goals.
Meanwhile, many physicians who have real pain have to look for donations to treat their patients. Health workers have to wait in queues for 4.5 hours to reach hospitals. Experts did not warn yesterday that many hospitals would soon fall into darkness due to lack of diesel.
Informed sources also say that some hospital supervisors and directors have sold bananas grown in hospitals to buy toner to print their laboratory reports. That’s it. Educated doctors in our country. They did not give that money to the hospital. Such doctors in our country wear tie coats because they do not even know that they are naked.
The majority of the thousands of Western doctors destroyed the country’s health system. It’s no secret. It goes without saying that they will destroy what is left. All the just and very good doctors, all the doctors who acted as selfish as well as the business doctors who took bribe from the pill, individually and collectively are responsible for this destruction.