Why doesn't the govt make rules for the middle class? Either they take care of the very poor or the very rich. The middle class is literally hung out to dry.
This govt assumed that the trading community cannot unite. This Rakhi, by not importing a single Rakhi, the trading community has proved that it can unite. The govt had better take note of that.
And what about the salaried classes? Us?
Oh, we are the prostitutes. We sell our whole life for a few bucks. We are the ONLY tax paying community whose tax is deducted at source. We don't even demand our basic right to a life after office. We don't unionise, we don't support each other. One person leaves a job and 10 are ready to take it. We dishonour our commitment to join an organisation if someone throws an extra 10000 at us. We have no moral fibre and no backbone. Why will anyone think of us during policy making? Where is the incentive? We don't even vote!
Why is that?
Because we grow up in colleges that do relative grading. Our entire higher education is designed to teach us to compete against each other. To put each other down. To ensure the failure of others because that automatically ensures our rise. When that becomes your ethos for the 4-7 years of character building, how can you develop a moral fibre? We are never taught to work together. Never rewarded for co-operation. In fact, in the RG method of grading, if you help someone, you are automatically putting your own rank down.
Put both these things together:
Reward Active Negative Behaviour
Penalise Co operation.
What do you get?
We get the salaried middle classes of India.
This govt assumed that the trading community cannot unite. This Rakhi, by not importing a single Rakhi, the trading community has proved that it can unite. The govt had better take note of that.
And what about the salaried classes? Us?
Oh, we are the prostitutes. We sell our whole life for a few bucks. We are the ONLY tax paying community whose tax is deducted at source. We don't even demand our basic right to a life after office. We don't unionise, we don't support each other. One person leaves a job and 10 are ready to take it. We dishonour our commitment to join an organisation if someone throws an extra 10000 at us. We have no moral fibre and no backbone. Why will anyone think of us during policy making? Where is the incentive? We don't even vote!
Why is that?
Because we grow up in colleges that do relative grading. Our entire higher education is designed to teach us to compete against each other. To put each other down. To ensure the failure of others because that automatically ensures our rise. When that becomes your ethos for the 4-7 years of character building, how can you develop a moral fibre? We are never taught to work together. Never rewarded for co-operation. In fact, in the RG method of grading, if you help someone, you are automatically putting your own rank down.
Put both these things together:
Reward Active Negative Behaviour
Penalise Co operation.
What do you get?
We get the salaried middle classes of India.
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