I am poor and I can justify that;
How many are poor in my country and in other parts of the world?
How are they poor? by birth?
by age and living standard?
In most of the cases a person is categorized as "poor" by the amount of money he is earning and the standard of living!
I would say there is one more criteria; the amount of work one has;
Yes I am way far poorer than millions of my country citizens because I don't have work to do. I am poor by work.
There are millions and if you go by the statistics, an estimated 37% of Indians fall below poverty line; the assumption is that poverty is calculated based on your daily wages and the monthly income.
What about work? how many of these millions of people don't have work?
What about the remaining 63% of people in India? Are they all working?
Do we have statistics to show how many of them are poor by work?
Now comes the difficult question; there is no standard or criteria to identify how much a person works each day; then how can we actually estimate this poverty?
No nation becomes developed just by money; it takes decades and probably centuries in some cases to change the standard of living of people. Its no mean task.
When an estimated half the young population (20-30 years) of your country are just free (my own take), how can you achieve growth?
When more than half of your middle age population are free (30-50 years), how can you aspire for a new India?
Yes I am complaining here; I am part of the problem and I know it; what I don't know is how do I alleviate it?
Hope Aamir Khan reads this blog and highlight this in one of his satyameva jayate episodes.
There are many people in my country who goes to office just to spend half of their days with tea/coffee/lunch breaks (including me???); there is no real reason for it; its a more complex thing to analyze why a person is free during office hours.
I don't blame our policy makers or politicians for this; some of them are after all doing something if not completely good either for themselves or for the nation.
People should work; we all should work and build our nation; because of the globalization impact each nation is now becoming an immigration hub; after another 30-40 years you wouldn't say Australians live in Australia; After a century probably Britain would lose its identity of a country where majority would be English.
It happens with every other developed nation sooner or later.
The real problem is still not known and a part of the solution is with us; its an organization's failure to keep its employees free; its a nation's failure to keep its citizens unproductive; its a family's failure to see their children roaming and passing time; And finally its a personal failure on each individual to see himself/herself sitting idle and doing nothing.
