It was much talked about for a while...
The wedding of Cavit Çağlar's daughter and Mehmet Emin Hattat's son. Venue: Çırağan. Number of guests: One thousand people. Money spent: Tongues wagging.
Immediately the classic sentence came:
“It would have been better if they had built a school.”
I said the same thing then and I stand by it today:
No, no, no, no, no. That wedding was a school. But a school of economics.
Because it was not just about two young people getting married.
The city worked from the morning that day.
Five hundred couples means five hundred hair appointments.
The manicurist made money.
The taxi driver made money.
The dry cleaners made money.
The jeweler made a sale.
The silversmith did business.
Florist, organization company, sound, lighting, waiter, waitress, cook, security...
Overnight, hundreds of households lost bread.
The circulation of money is not immoral.
Money that does not circulate produces immoral results.
We like to belittle special occasions.
Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, weddings...
“We say ”waste".
In those days, the system breathes.
Economy is not concrete; it is circulation.
If money doesn't circulate, production stops.
If production stops, salaries cannot be paid.
If the salaries are not paid, concordatos start.
Layoffs come.
This is the picture we are experiencing today.
Saving can be a virtue for the individual.
But you cannot manage the national economy by saying “don't spend”.
Maybe you can make up for inflation by cutting credit cards...
But if you stop the wheel, the makeup will run.
A wedding is not comparable to a school.
But let's not forget this:
Maybe two schools can be built with the VAT, withholding tax and income tax from that wedding.
Because economics is not mathematics, it is circulation.
If you put money under the pillow, you will not gain confidence.
Trust comes when the wheel turns.
Sometimes a lavish wedding nurtures a more humble reality than one might think:
Hot money going into the homes of working people.
Let's criticize waste, yes.
But let's not penalize production and circulation.
Because the economy starts in the wedding hall;
It should not end at the concordat table.