Money matters

19Apr09

We speak of religious riots in India, regionalism, language discrimination, caste discrimination and racial discrimination. But is it really that big an issue. Even though cultural prejudice exists, if we dig deep into their reasons mostly it boils down to money matters, struggle for survival in a society which has not been able to provide enough for all to live. Let talk about the war on language in Assam, the main of reason is that many people of Assam are all able to get a required job and as such are trying to drive away Bengalis and Biharis from Assam. The main reason is the unemployment problem and not regionalism or language discrimination. Caste system of India is also a symbol of power supremacy. Earlier the Brahmins were more powerful. We remember how Galileo was sentenced to death for telling that Earth revolved around the Sun. The Popes and religious leaders were the most powerful at that time. Then came the monarchy system of Kings and Emperors, the Kshatriyas were powerful which lead to imperialism. And now is the time of the Vaishyas, the merchants, business man, – now money rules. Even the racial discrimination originated from the fact that the ‘Africans’ were economically poor and technologically less advanced and as such were bought as slaves or rented as laborers in industries. Such practices as we see for decades become a part of culture and leads to regionalism, language discrimination, caste system and racial prejudice. To get rid of such practices we have to first get rid of the supremacy of money. Right to employment should be a fundamental right for everyone and exploitation on the basis of demand and supply of labor has to be eliminated. Moreover the working hours is to be limited to 8 hours per day according to WHO recommended standards. The supremacy of religion was eliminated with the rise of renaissance, industrial revolution and scientific thinking. The rise of Khastriyas was eliminated by the concept of liberty, justice, equality and democracy. Will the supremacy of money and the rising inequality between men on the basis of money, the unequal distribution of wealth in the human society, the unequal distribution of facilities, the practice of giving more importance to profit than people cause a revolt in the society again. Will the 60% of the poorest population which earns less than the 1% of the richest section of the people rise in revolt one day and say that they want that percentage of the profit which was made by their labor, that they will decide for themselves how much remuneration they need to get of their labor. Will they one day refuse to give more than the interest for the capital invested and the rent for the land. Will they be aware one day? According to Vivekananda, it is time for the ’shudras’ to rule the world,- those people who make the big industries, those people who produces food for us, those people will demand a decent standard of living and demand to enjoy the fruit of their labour.

 

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