The candidates for the Capital City Hall went out for filming and pictures on the construction sites. I hope that between some effect shots, with white helmets and reflective vests, it will be noticed that the workers there are over 55 years old, some over 60 years old

It is good that, at least in the electoral campaign, the candidates go out to the construction sites to see with their own eyes the progress of the public projects financed in the vast majority from the fees and taxes paid by the voting taxpayers. Soon, you will see, the candidates will go to processing factories and agricultural farms, preferably those where there are many employees in exchange. And there are some excellent pictures, helmets, vests, robes, assembly lines, milking lines, etc.

The Romanian employees in the processing factories, on the construction sites and in the agricultural farms belong in the vast majority to the Decretei generation – Romania’s Baby-Boomers. Very few Millennials and Zoomers choose physical work, in fact many of them choose to be NEET.

I have also talked about the disproportionate weight of Decreets in physical work in factories, construction and agriculture and I have also talked about the extremely serious consequences that derive from this.

1) The decrees go on for 5-10 years in a pension that no one has to pay anymore due to the decrease of the active population, the exodus of the labor force and the desert of birth.

2) The coming of hundreds of thousands of Asians to work in processing factories, on construction sites or in agricultural farms represents an unknown sea, with an evolution that is difficult to estimate in the next 10 years – including from a demographic point of view. In fact, it is difficult to estimate the impact of imported labor even in the immediate term, after Romania fully enters Schengen and the Arabs start construction at Neom.

3) And, last but not least, we say it, artificial intelligence, digitization, automation and technology will not be able to replace physical work completely and in no case in the next 10 years when Romania has to build its infrastructure and in no case in processing factories, construction sites and agricultural farms.

There are plenty of human resources specialists. In consulting, in mindfulness, in legal advice, in compliance, in recruitment, in dismissal, in memorable experiences, in coaching, in training, in conversion, in remote work and close work, in intra and extra-salary benefits, in insurances of life – everyone sells you something and you, because you are in a panic and don’t know or can’t retain or attract employees, buy. What we don’t have are workers in processing factories, construction sites and agricultural farms.

When you pass by a construction site, look carefully at those who work there, the vast majority of them have been for 50 years. The same happens in processing factories and agricultural farms. No one comes from behind to take their place.

It is desirable that after the elections are over, the future leaders of Romania will leave the forums, conferences, debates and seminars about how we will do and direct research and development, artificial intelligence, digitization, technology, automation and other such “priorities” and to accept that without the added value brought by processing factories, construction sites and agricultural farms, Romania has no chance of sustainable economic growth.

Industrial policies and strategies on food, chemistry, energy and defense and the development of human resources for these fields. This is also what the European industrialists who signed the Antwerp declaration, about which no one in Romania spoke, with the exception of Stefan Vuza, demand.