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..
Thursday, May 26, 2005
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Dear Lone sailor,
ReplyDeleteThanks for that comment,while I agree that innovators in business push the economy forward.(Incidentally, this is one theory of Dr Danny Quah of Harvard, LSE that says we need the Bransons, David Beckhams etc more than we think - It came under considerable flak as being too right-wingy)
However, even advanced societies don't always distribute income equally. For instance, Europe does better than the US where the rich are taxed much lesser.
Mokri.