Why don't we change the economic model

A group of magnificent columnists are writing collectively this week what many of us think: it is urgent to change the economic model of the Balearic Islands. We all understand that this implies reducing a few million tourists and starting to truly bet on the primary sector and industry.

Why will this not happen in the short or medium term? Because both public powers and individuals have been programmed to continue copying and clinging to this system without considering the possibility that nothing can change.

Just look at the example of tourism fairs. When there was no internet, they were the meeting place, to put a face to, to make contacts with tour operators. Now, in a world that holds daily digital meetings with participants from all over the world, having to go and shake hands is a bit laughable. And, above all, that millions of public money are spent to show four videos of paradisiacal beaches, without saturation, because they are filmed in winter, is simply absurd. But the politician has not yet been born with the courage to say that it is high time to take these budgets and start supporting the poor industrialists who fight against all odds to produce and innovate.

The Basques have public technology centers where a small or medium-sized entrepreneur can find a testing ground for their developments, without having to advance the full cost of a very expensive machine or installation. Here, if you want to innovate, you risk your entire heritage. And since we are programmed to think that we can only live on tourism, we continue to rent even grandma's house and then cry about saturation.