Making money??

I am writing this after reading some of Mokri's blogs- www.chennupatim.blogspot.com
When do societies develop? Or rather, when are societies considered developed?
The obvious answer is when the societies are rich. When they make lots of money. Not just a few individuals, but when most members of the society make lots of money. So when we are thinking about improving the lot of our folks, we are thinking about improving the standards and quality of their living - all of which, in effect, requires them to find ways of making money.

Throughout the history of human beings, no society has developed because of the few people who set out to improve the social/economic conditions of their fellow beings, but because of the few people who are enterprising enough to find ideas of doing productive work and thereby make money for themselves and for the others, by generating lots of opportunities.

A Bill Gates or a Narayana Murthy or an Ambani have done lot more good to their fellow beings through their enterprising ways, than any of the people care organizations ever hope to do, not withstanding all their good intentions.

I am not saying making money should be the primary goal.. the primary goal should be to realize our potential to the fullest extent possible.. be the best at what we can.. that is when, we will be happy and satisfied - money or no money..
If we can achieve the best we can, prosperity- not just for us, but for our fellow human beings too- automatically follows..

Hope!

As my first year comes to close, again I wonder, as I have wondered so many times in the past two years, what next? The first 20 years of life had been fun. All the idealism of the past seems to have been deserting me.. i think i know when it all started. but i am too lazy to do anything about it.. or may be i don't care enough to do anything about it.. or may be i don't realize how big the crisis is..
But then, i am hopeful. Hope is a gud thing to have.. n gud things never fail. strangely, these days, i find myself in a new dilemma.. albeit a pleasurable one. is it born out of this strongly felt necessity to regain my strength or is it for real?
i wud like to think it's a bit of both.. Again hope!!