Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Money is the common denominator
What a true statement that is. Certainly, money is the common denominator. But the way I look at it is different. What does a denominator do? It divides. Yes, that is what money does. It divides. It divides rich from the poor. It divides influential from uninfluential. It divides people that can access better health facilities from that cannot. It divides today's good friends into tomorrow's enemies. It divides the tax evaders from those employees whose tax is deducted right at the sourse. It divides everything into things that were not meant to be divided at first place. I could go on dividing things. I am sure money was invented to be a facilitator, as a tool to get away from the messy bartering system. Messy?? I think atleast in the bartering system you learn to respect what you are capable of producing and also what your neighbour with whom you will trade is producing thereby leading to a harmonious living. I make what I am good at, you produce what you are good at and we share both the good things. Over centuries, money has become a dicatator than just being a facilitator. Anyway, the point is what is the solution. When you have such a powerful denominator that divides everything, what do you do. You look for an equally powerful numerator. Well, before you start counting on Love, culture, family values etc., to play that role, I am not going to preach them as solutions. As an Indian, I stronly believe that we have those things more than we need. What we indeed lack is a stronly uniting strict laws. Oh well, you might argue that we do have laws. Ours is the strongest constitution in the world, biggest democracy in the universe blah blah blah. But are they being applied? In fact the very denominator I am talking about, the money divides the way law is being applied in our country. Developed countries like US are developed countries not because they dont have crimes, but because they dont waste time recognizing that there are crimes and try to enforce law as much as they can and ofcourse as less divided by money as it can get. So, as a strong solution, I suggest LAW (the ones that will be applied no matter one has more money or not) as the most powerful numerator. LAW must be above everything. After all, numerator is above everything, including the denominator...you know what i am talking about.
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2 comments:
a nice piece of blog, mohan! interesting way to think that LAW could be a match with money! since we made the law, "We" could be the best numerator... it's all up to us... a sane mind can put "money" at it's deserved place and not as the common denominator... what do you think?
hari,
This is called the aggregate behavior. Even though we as human beings put both money and law in place--individualistically (as applied to single person) they are both created with good intention, but taken in an aggregate ( of human beings) manner, as it stands, only the law seem to have the right effect while the problems created by money outweighs its benefits. Yes I agree that a sane mind will put money in the right place...but what about an aggregate of minds, sane or otherwise ?
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