Why are we in love with poverty and unemployment in India so much. Why dont we do something to eradicate it instead of boasting it. The poverty has been there when there were no billionaires in India and poverty may remain there if we produce thousands of more billionaires. We should be proud of these businessmen who made it with their hard work and sincerity and created so many jobs for unemployed. We should encourage more and more young people to choose path of entrepreneurship rather than seeking job security and wasting our talents. The world is full of poor talented persons. We should learn to think out of the box.
Unemployment is the tool to keep the salaries and wages level lower than the labor given in exchange so that these super rich can become richer. In simple word, more unemployed mean more supply hence low cost of labor. Like in IT a person get on avg 30-40 thousands monthly but the client pay 7-8 lac monthly that mean the actual labor cost is higher than the people get but ..... no matter how much the people be exploited Govt will keep quite b'coz they got their cut.
super-pomp and show (at the cost of equity for the commoners) in India is 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 'wealth',
by piri on Mar 20, 2011 11:56 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: This new age acceptance of super 'wealth',
by Saagar Bhatia on Mar 22, 2011 01:03 AM
I want to see the real ist with Politicians and underworld in it. lol
India is not only about Ambanis, politicians and bpo / software employees.
Majority of people are finding it extremely difficult to deal with the inflation. Everything is so expensive. From vegetables and food to education and medical treatment. Future for common people is doomed.
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