Re: Please answer
by saurabh chhabra on Mar 16, 2011 06:40 PM
because ratan tata runs his business under the two trust & not under his owner ship and he takes salary for that. although he has 50 companies under tata group and that makes him alomost 1.5 times richer than bill gates or any one else in the world.
super-pomp and show (at the cost of equity for the commoners) in India are partly fuelled by new-age 'mantras' such as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's 'Art of Living' ! These alleged 'rishi-like' beings actually and subtly encourage and cause the deification of wealth !
In contrast, the wealth obsessed American society has now begun creating tendencies among the rich to give away substantially to the cause of the poor !
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have started a movement to persuade the supremely rich to give away substantial portions of their wealth (and not just token amounts). They have themselves pledged 50 % or more of their wealth to public charities and so far persuaded more than 50 of America's richest men to donate substantially.
And now they have started a world tour to take their message to the rich all over. And as part of their world tour, they are scheduled to land in India also !!
The super-rich of India (whose wealth, unlike that of America's wealthy, is derived chiefly from lack of or lack of application of proper regulations in the country) such as dyed-in-the-wool thieves like the Ambani brothers, Birlas, Mittals, etc. (not to mention the creations of the stupid commoners like very corrupt politicians) will be shifting in discomfort in their clothes at the prospect of having to dissuade Mr.Gates and Mr.Buffet from insisting that they should contribute anything more than token amounts !!
Re: This new-age acceptance of super-enrichment and
by AJIT ANAND on Mar 16, 2011 01:27 PM
Do you give away 50% or 25% or 10% or 5% or 2% or 1% or nil to the cause of poor? Be honest and then reply.
Re: Re: This new-age acceptance of super-enrichment and
by piri on Mar 16, 2011 03:52 PM
I dont. But I dont steal either !
So, if Bill gates and Buffet who became the richest men in the world without stealing (because their societies and their competition wont allow them to steal) could donate more than 50 %, then a common Indian who does not steal cant be faulted for expecting the legalised big time thieves in his country to donate at least some substantial part of his wealth, can he ??
Re: This new-age acceptance of super-enrichment and
by piri on Mar 16, 2011 01:24 PM
They can, as a counter measure and also as an escape route, seek to teach Mr.Gates and Mr.Buffet the 'Art of Living' 'philosophy' !
In the normal course, the Indian super-thieves do not have to resort to such painful deviations to score their point; they simply will brush away anyone suggesting that they part with some of their loot for the cause of the poor.
But Mr.Gates and Mr.Buffet are different, aren't they ?? The Indian thieves will very much want to keep them in very good humour as they hope to somehow make it appear to themselves and their folks that they belong to such 'exalted' company as the world's foremost business achievers !!
Re: Re: This new-age acceptance of super-enrichment and
by xyz on Mar 16, 2011 08:31 PM
how many lungi tamils in the list. only in india it can happen, these bloody beggar tamils who should clean our toilets talk a lot about tamil prosperity
