There is a reason...

Just the other day, a close friend of mine who is deeply entrenched in the business of generating money and planning their best returns, a product of capitalism which harped on man's primitive desire of greed was engaged in a chat with me. Some how, the topic of the stranded refugees off the coast of Kedah came to be discussed. Something he said struck a cord with me.

Let us say you have acquired a boon by rescuing a genie in the bottle and you have the ability to distribute all of the world's wealth equally to every single citizen of the world to the last cent. After that, with the wave of the wand, the genie transports you to another solar system and you return to planet Earth, say 50 years later.

What you would see is hardly surprising! The economic distribution would have corrected itself. The rich would have re-aquired their lost wealth and be in the upper echelon of the society, once again. The initiated would gamble, take chances, cut corners, think out the box, initiate and innovate to enrich himself. The contented on the other hand, would be happy to be spoon fed, self indulging and fretting on their hopelessness. The middle class would somehow justify their miss at the big break by pacifying themselves that suffering and moderation on Earth would earn them brownie points in their after-life or karma cycle.

Anyway, the rich cannot stay without the poor to flaunt and the smart would not be so without the numskull to be used as a yardstick!