An Eye-Opener...

Juz received a thought - provoking forward after a long time...so thought of blogging it down!

The debate on economics, culture, politics and society is always a very heated one... And i intend to fuel it further because it is necessary... As always, i apologise for any of you taking offence to my statements... But before i proceed let me take the discussion from the point of view of the "other side"...

1. Without ethics economic growth is manipulation and oppression... agreed... but who defines "ethics"??? ethics are subjective and are a set of rules which would not suit all people or cultures... on the other hand moral values are universally accepted... please refer to the document in the following link to make things clearer... http://home.flash.net/~bob001/basics.htm We are talking about moral values and not ethics here...
2. In a truthful society, everyone accepts that only SOME people are not practical enough to realise that economics drives the activities of the masses, not ideals...
3. Capitalism is NOT centralised economy, but socialism/communism is... as a simple proof, just answer to yourself whether china or russia allow democracy being communist countries... russia allowed democracy and the communist economy collapsed... china can still run because there is centralisation in communism... capitalism is essentially decentralisation and socialism is essentially centralisation... we are generally misguided by the fact that large corporations mean centralisation... it means more power away from government in case of capitalism... we need clarity of concepts before we voice our opinions...
4. Growth of economy should follow right means... i agree perfectly... but capitalism with labour care and no labour unions or socialism with labour exploitation avoidance unions??? i prefer the first...
5. Industries should help humanity in the long run... perfectly acceptable to me...
6. Technology ALWAYS USES science never abuses it... the choice is of man, not of technology... in fact, phones help me talk to my mother every week...do we think of phones as bad because people have phone sex??? the fault is of man, not the phone... the fault is of improper imbibing of culture and not of something external called technology... who is responsible??? is it science because it allows misuse or the parents of my friends who could not teach their children moral values??? it is always easy to abuse external objects that cant speak for themselves rather than accepting our own faults... i can go into psychology details to explain this, but i dont think such an obvious thing needs such a comprehensive explanation...
7. IMF was formed along with World Bank at the Bretton woods conference with a motive to make third world economies dependent on the developed ones... it is modern imperialism... just like we had british colonialism for resource capturing 50 years back... anyone who has studied modern economics and history can easily confirm this... we dont need nobel laureates to tell us such obvious stuff... we probably need nobel laureates to say such things so that the so called "ordinary insensible people" can be shown this as proof...
8. i am highly doubtful that labour intensive methods remove poverty... please give me one example of a country which has successfully removed poverty by labour intensive methods... all countries that dont have poverty use capital intensive technology... they simply outsource work to save costs... and by doing so they help so many unemployed people in India to get good salary jobs... technology helps people to put more emphasis on studies and do higher level work so that no human has to be a labourer...
9. Pepsi and Coke have never affected the sale of fruits... if they have, please show me evidence... they have increased sales of fruit juices helping fruit farmers to earn stably incomes... in fact, coke was developed as a brain tonic... even if it is junk food, no morals stop me from having it...i have freedom of choice...
   
10. and one more thing... isnt eating vegatarian food also killing life??? why not just eat food which fall from trees... why grow crops just to kill them??? is it simply because they cant speak we dont need to respect their right to life??? we dont ask such questions because they make us uncomfortable... please realise that lines here are hazy... we do things which we feel are right for reasons we believe in... we cant force our reasons and sense on others...
11. Local solutions should be there for local problems... a point very well taken...

There are professors who talk with nobel laureates in economics... they can prove that corruption has proved beneficial for the economy... we have people from IITs talking about the futility of technology... there is more advancement in war torn nations than peace loving ones... these are facts... see, we cant choose what our future generations will do...
We can only leave examples to learn from by doing things which we think are correct... If they disagree, we are already dead !!!