It
dawned on me as if I were slated for escalating the trend of events
as well as to right the wrongs in the clutter of aberrations that we
feel and witness everyday around us. I have sort of a sneaking
feeling that there is an avalanche heading our way coz day after day
we come to notice as to how fast things are coming apart at the
seams.
In
fact, if we can't afford to pick and chose in an attempt to staving
off the time and are equally incapable of surpassing those outdated
thoughts and harebrained ideas that ruined our financial and economic
strongholds, we are liable to drift away from setting ourselves a
goal to catch up the lost time.
At
times, when a guy used to perceive MBA (Master of Business
Administration) degrees as a jackpot to earning the highest emolument
as well as reaching the summit of glory and be propelled to the most
fortunate status symbol to mint a dollop of buck has become a mere
subject of mockery. Owing to the barbs of criticism emanating from
all parts, the creativity thereof has become vulnerable and generic.
In
essence, the Reaganomics and Thatcherite outrageous dogmas of
financial deregulation and monetarism, which caused the shakedown of
whole setup, duly advocated by Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek
culminated in the highest peak added by some hazardous events such as
the unexpected fall of the Berlin Wall on November O9, 1989, those
neoliberals were having the wind in their sails to seize golden
occasions to have their places in the sun by flourishing their
businesses to make fast and easy buck in those formerly Communist
countries which never had experienced any sort of prosperity neither
material nor an ounce of satisfaction to be the lackeys of the
defunct USSR.
Without
flinching, in this effervescence everybody thought there were unique
opportunities to earn lots of money, and for that the most suitable
formula was 'Go East'. There were many gung ho candidates fit for a
new and modern adventure similar to that of erstwhile US Wild, Wild
West.
Let
us see how the Fed (Federal Reserve Bank) enacted triggered by Alan
Greenspan, the former big shot of the Fed, and the following adage
has been added to his already infamous glory, “If folks cannot have
higher income, let us give them debt”. With this, under his
chairmanship of machine for purchasing anything on credit, Americans
became the champions of all categories of spending binge.
The
other day an American society specialized in manufacturing the
interior cladding of cars was very reluctant to lay off 1,000 of her
employees so that she could install her factory in India where an
average worker is paid a salary of all in all 69 euros. The same
jobholder in the Occident earns a lump sum of 1,500 euros plus about
50 per cent of extra charges, ie., the boss pays in total about 2,250
euros from his pocket ( social security, income tax and miscellaneous
expenses included.)
In
the same manner, a pair of sneakers of great Trademark* such as
Adidas, Nike, Reebok made in Chinese factories is available in the
markets of the Occident for the price of around 110 euros, whereas
when it comes out just from the factory in China, it hardly costs 7
to 12 euros to a buyer. This is how the multitask international
societies rob you blind by taking huge benefits without paying a
decent salary to those subservient as well as low-cost laborers of
the developing countries, thereby killing millions and millions of
jobs in the developed world.
If
the West doesn't invent new jobs of very high quality in the field of
nanotechnologies, ecology-friendly energy, bio-diversified
agricultural and scientific domains par excellence applying the
knowledge economy, nontransferable to certain extent, I have a gut
feeling that the toll of joblessness will be so high and out of
control that a social agitation is for sure on the way of making.
Which is why, for the sake of amour-propre, social peace and harmony
it is important that the politicians had risen to the occasion to
remedy such deleterious and degrading industrial comedown.
The
subprime bust that triggered a financial tsunami was effectively
wrought by bankers and traders to make easy buck. There were no
uncertain ways to downright betting that the housing market would
tank and suck millions of Americans in the mow of foreclosure of
homes with underwater mortgages spawning huge loss for the banks
involved; and, to cap it all off, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
as an icing on the cake, awakened them from their torpor which found
them hanging their heads with irritation and shame.
Point
of fact, the way Wall Street shysters cheated the Main Street
stakeholders by rigging them off as in the highway robbery playing freely
with the deposits of commoners on the 'worldwide open casinos' is
simply inadmissible. Post such banking systems' disaster, Goldman
Sachs, to cite, but one, was coddled as if it had every right to fan
the embers of global sputtering economy and went free of sequel to
redo the same old business as usual.
If
they want to keep at doing the same kinds of business, it is
imperative as well as fitting that the Occident should be on a
constant creation of the new jobs to maintain the same momentum and
number of consumers. Otherwise, a slowing down of economic activity
shall but toggle switch the new opportunities to the detriment of
those involved in this rat race.
In
a nutshell, these countries of the yet developing world are bound to
purchase and renew their stocks of modern technology if they do not
want to lag behind.
If
the inhabitants of this planet do not pay heed to these seemingly
easy going but cruel competition of overall transactions in an
inexhaustible race against the clock, one day everybody will live to
regret it.
No comments:
Post a Comment