Recently, on my way back home, I had this co-passenger who began a conversation with me. A self confessed "The Hindu" fan, he had tremendous knowledge of whatever is going on in the nation that would be of direct consequence to us. He spoke about many issues with terrific ease. But one thing that surprised me was this mans theory of we Indians being lazy, a genetic trait, he insisted. Here goes his justification : Ours being a tropical country, whatever u throw will grow. So people really dont have to strain their asses to live comfortably. On the contrary, in Europe and America, there is no food at all in winter.
After giving it some thought, I thought its pretty true. Not so much amongst the educated class perhaps. But I remember my mom telling me about daily wage labourers in our village. If you pay them well, they'll work only for 3 days a week, since thats enough for them to make end meet. Or by chance if they work for more than three days, the surplus earnings will be spent for booze.
Even otherwise, we are quite lazy, arent we?
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Hmm..Good topic..
Wonder how much of a role do individual aspirations have to play..
Perhaps, the reason for our success so far of late has been the rapidly growing aspirations of our people, pushing them to strive harder.
The real success might be when this spirit seeps down to the weakest in the socio-economic ladder. My guess is that it has already begun..what say?
Hey, that's true. Its the way workers substitute work by luxury once their utilities are satisfied. In Economics, they call it the 'Backward Bending Supply Curve of Labour'- an exception to the Law of Supply... :)
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