They 'give', don't care to 'get'

They ‘give’, don’t care to ‘get’

The major problem the majority of humans mostly incurably suffer from is economic, precisely financial weakness. It affects their day to day life and living, deprives them of their physical and mental well being and lowers their social credibility and status. The economically strong minority who rules the roost looks down upon them with much pity and less compassion -- the latter being more palpably evident among the weaker majority. For the strong, compassion is a thing to show off.   

The only symptom of financial weakness is lack of purchasing power. From daily bread to cremation / burial paraphernalia, everything has to be purchased. Good, nourishing food, decent and durable clothes, comfortable house, right and meaningful education, fool-proof medical facility and travelling for gathering knowledge, enriching the mind and widening the vision are to be bought. So, to fit into the bill, you need money.

Money has to be earned either by a man himself or by others on his behalf and because it is a matter of ‘behalf’, the money earned, therefore, is also ‘halved’, so to say. The sharing is between a non-performing few and a performing mass. Let us presume the shares are 50-50 and the beneficiary- ratio 5:95.

Now, going back to performer and non-performer question, the latter also performs with its capital or money input. I put money into a project and you work and produce for me. In other words I purchase your labor. It is done on my terms. You don’t have much say about deciding what price I pay for your labor. Why? Because money is more powerful than labor. The powerful always dictates the terms.  It is a fundamental rule of life as conceived and developed by the cleverer, cunning, crafty section and practiced since millennia.

Well, but in the first place, where did I get the money from for investing into an activity where money is the labor’s principal counterpart? Either I earned it or amassed it. As for earning, I have eight hours a day to work. How much can one earn in eight hours? The answer would vary. However, going by a general assumption let’s say I earn Rs.500. This is multiplied by 95 (labor) when I am in the role of an investor of money or the amassing mechanism. Now, it is an axiom that I cannot amass without depriving others.

There are many ways to amass. I may be or my forefathers may have been frauds; robbers ; burglars  never to be caught;  racketeers or  smugglers; may have won a lottery; owning vast land by means far from fair  and so on a so forth. I have somehow, through these or some other way amassed money ending up as a wealthy man. I am a criminal in the first place. For, ‘every wealth has a crime behind it’. Who would deny that all empires were built and strengthened by perpetrating crime against humanity? Maybe today’s empires are in a different garb but their modus operandi is same as the empires of the past. Deprivation was at the root of all wealth then. So it is now.

‘Jiska lathi, uska bhains’ (He who has a stick, owns the buffalo) is the law of nature. Some humans rationalized it and gave the buffalo to those without stick. They set the example that even though ‘might is right’ is the nature’s law, it can be, and should be modified for the benefit of humanity. The concept of ‘humanity’ was brought about and developed by them. However, those rational mighty were a minority. They are still the minority.

Once upon a time, the life-standard used to be determined by the mentality to ‘give’. Now the standard is measured by the capability to ‘get’. Prosperity of an individual, a community or a country is popularly measured by the number of skyscrapers piercing the blue, the limousines raping the roads, the super-speciality hospitals and the medicos;  proliferation of entertainment media sincerely engaged in transforming the most desirable uncovering in private into extremely detestable denuding in public…it’s tiresome to add on more instances of ‘never leave a chance to grab-and-consume’.

The good news, however, is, there are minds, however miniscule they may be, generating and spreading the vibes that are aimed at enriching the life’s interior over exterior. It’s not that the exterior is ignored.  The suggestion is to remove unnecessary stress on shine alone. It’s like a boy being encouraged to study his school curricula first and then polish his shoes! The vibes are for arranging the priorities time-opportunity-coherence wise, not discarding any of them. The vibes are for seeking durability in this non-durable world, for augmenting temperance against intemperance, to draw a longer line parallel to the shorter without erasing it.

Artists, Writers, Poets, Scientists never assumed the powerful’s role nor wielded the strong money-bludgeon over the weaker. They are hardly known to be amassing money or believing in 5-95 proportion. They did never believe in becoming rich in the commonly understood sense but with a virtual missionary zeal helped the globe to be richer. They made the world move from one gain to a higher gain and yet higher gain by the sheer power of their positive imagination and endless pursuit of excellence of creative, imperishable human faculties. Amassing had never been nor is their cup of tea. They live to be on the giving side. At times they may be forced by compelling circumstances to be at the receiving end but they hardly take any time to turn about and push their giving mission forward…and forward.