Being rich=Successful...

Being shameless / guilt free at exploiting others to become rich..  has this become the mantra these days?

Would you agree that, all high power CEO’s have the common ability to NOT feel guilt or shame (in comparison to lower level achievers) about cheating / exploiting others out of their teeth and skin? (Maybe they can justify it with their ‘ends’… i.e. final goal, and take shortcuts in regard to values and means, as practical way).

Do sensitive people remain behind? Are these people called nice guys? (from nice guys finish last).  Doesn’t seem illogical that nice people don’t succeed, but not nice people do?

Of course, there are dozens of hero’s, who are pride of their nation in history, and they seem to be shining with goodness and honesty like gods themselves.  But if critically examined, how many of them practiced these values day in and day out in reality? What do you think?

Lets leave the above hypothetical question behind.  But have you ever felt that, crime does pay, and criminals and exploiters of other people get away with current legal system, whose motto is, let 1000 criminals escape, but one innocent should not be punished?

I am not asking for dictatorship or cruel punishments or an eye for an eye.  There is no proof that even death penalty reduces crime.  But, how to deal with this aspect of rise in shamelessness, a feeling that, I can get away with financial crimes and even atrocities? – the issue is, how to have a more human, cooperative society, rather than worship-rich-people-at-any-cost attitude?

One of the simple ways to find out how huge inequality is present in our world is by checking “if there are just 100 people in this whole world” (google it).  Maybe its time to think about another type of economy, which is not based on money as credit, status, or the only resource.

Should the past inheritance of a person be converted into money and be gifted to them as a hereditary lottery? Can we have an alternative economic system, which measures and gives credits/resources on the basis of contribution each person gives to the society?

It will have to be sustainable, this contribution or creation, that a person gives to society as a whole, that must be measured, to provide credit/resources/status to that person.  Money can buy everything will have to be changed, or the nature of money as sole resource be eliminated. 

This way, each individual will be encouraged to create/contribute in a meaningful way to make the world richer, wealthier – but not just in monetary terms. 

This evaluation and providing credit should be a continuous process, and they should have an expiry date, or period, to discourage piling up of huge credits at one go and live on it throughout for generations.  The past should not be a bed to lie down, but a spring to push forward. 

Of course, its another utopian dream concept, (half baked), but shouldn’t we all utilize little bit of our thinking time to find and encourage, a more equal, positive, cooperative soviduals?