Why we need to stop blaming ourselves individually...we are no different from any other citizens of countries doing vastly better.... | LinkedIn
Why we need to stop blaming ourselves individually...we are no different from any other citizens of countries doing vastly better.... | LinkedIn
Why we need to stop blaming ourselves individually...we are no different from any other citizens of countries doing vastly better....
Are we all responsible for the ills and evils? Do we need to introspect?
I think this is a leading question driving us to escapism and self infliction....Of course we all contribute and we are the perpetrators and the victims...but so what...that is true of all societies. We are not different from Europeans and Americans...we have the same motivations and ambitions and the same fallacies and weaknesses. In their environments we do equally well, indeed sometimes even better.
The problem is definitely not us as individuals. The problem is just the system that we find ourselves in which is again just a historical accident.
I have said in some other posts that all our problems can be simply traced to political careers not being financially viable.
This results in politicians spending stupendous amounts on building their careers and then retrieving their investments with handsome returns by creating obstacle courses for all government services which they can then broker profitably...needless to add, the thicker and more complex the law and rule books, the greater the potential for earnings for the broker.
The easy answer to all our problems is to pay the political party running the central government for 5 years a contractual sum of say 50,000 crore rupees and similarly pay the party running each state government a contractual sum of say 5,000 to 10,000 crores for each term of 5 years.
This would make political careers viable and all corruption will evaporate in short order....and we could become the best run country in the world...
What would of course prevent this is our collective hypocrisy...we still like to publicly posture that politics is a social service and need not be paid for. When you deny politicians legitimate payments for their toils, you get animals running the country who only believe in grime and gore.
I think this is a leading question driving us to escapism and self infliction....Of course we all contribute and we are the perpetrators and the victims...but so what...that is true of all societies. We are not different from Europeans and Americans...we have the same motivations and ambitions and the same fallacies and weaknesses. In their environments we do equally well, indeed sometimes even better.
The problem is definitely not us as individuals. The problem is just the system that we find ourselves in which is again just a historical accident.
I have said in some other posts that all our problems can be simply traced to political careers not being financially viable.
This results in politicians spending stupendous amounts on building their careers and then retrieving their investments with handsome returns by creating obstacle courses for all government services which they can then broker profitably...needless to add, the thicker and more complex the law and rule books, the greater the potential for earnings for the broker.
The easy answer to all our problems is to pay the political party running the central government for 5 years a contractual sum of say 50,000 crore rupees and similarly pay the party running each state government a contractual sum of say 5,000 to 10,000 crores for each term of 5 years.
This would make political careers viable and all corruption will evaporate in short order....and we could become the best run country in the world...
What would of course prevent this is our collective hypocrisy...we still like to publicly posture that politics is a social service and need not be paid for. When you deny politicians legitimate payments for their toils, you get animals running the country who only believe in grime and gore.
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