Growing up in India has its own advantages and disadvantages. This is by far biggest irony I have ever observed ; here everybody teaches everybody, regarding anything and everything, yet nobody is master of his subject. No Nobel, no quality innovation, nothing.
What I want to indicate in my post is that, you put your problem in front of your parents, they will instantly give you an solution, without even giving it a thought that your problem needs some more considerations, your friends as well as your relatives will pour unsolicited advice, which will add up to confusion and in the end you would think, what wrong you have done to ask for help from them.
This is what troubles me the most. What causes it. Why some people who has so much of success has minuscule rational mind, and why those people who own nothing have the brightest of mind. You luck tend to play in the favor of fool.
So lets take it slowly and one by one the answer of this conglomerate of ethical question lies in the answer of first part. So let’s examine that.
Do some people who has so much of success has something extraordinary called as ability?
The answer is not simple and it require some consideration. Here we are not discussing the rationality. We assume that there can be ideal or rational person in the world. So now back to the question,
Since the childhood we dream of success! success means money, Home, expensive watch, Great car, Trophy Wife, intelligent Children, no in-laws and infinite amount of money to spend.
let us see the example of a stock market derivatives and hedge fund working. The breed of CEO take home salary ranges from some hundred million to some billion. Now people who are more capable, and in fact people who do actual work and produce result for the company take home some hundred thousand of dollars. This contrast is visible in every aspect of the financial free markets. Those who contribute the most by the virtue of their ability remain the poorest, until that golden chance strikes. That moment I describe as hand of destiny.
Another example, take the sports, there are many people who are as good as Michael Jordan or as Usain Bolt or as great Sachin Tendulkar but never got a change in lime light. FICCI states that more than 99% entrepreneur never reach to the level of business they planned for.
This was my first point. Back to the point, if we came to know that my finance minister is no wiser than my driver, then any one can go and preach some principles(In Parliament; and I do not give it a damn). That is what is exactly happening in our country.
Take it slow read it again. Let us revise what i just said. we just saw that from a perspective success does not depend upon ability but luck, if we take our sample population of equal ability. But then all this philosophy( business ethics and standards specially) is given by people who are successful. Comman man blindly follows the path and practices preached by these leaders. so since these people are no more able then myself.
So there come the Burning Question: everybody teaching everybody about anything and everything.
And same applies to philosophy as well where those people whose books are being published and rated as good is being considered as philosopher, without being tested on the altar of time. All those who don't have privilege of being published preaches it in local cafe,, bar or where ever you find them and all the retired persons, dads, moms, waiters, college professor etc comes into this list.
Actually this is what I have felt in my journey of 25 years. I have enough knowledge to write an encyclopedia on philosophy, but its all mediocre (knowledge). This is what Paradox : Philosophy ain't philosophy any more!
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