Just the other day, I watched a youtube presentation of a discussion on the affairs of world economics, mainly European economics, between two world icons, Yanis Varoufakis, an academician with a short-lived political stint in Greek Cabinet and Professor Noam Chomsky, the renowned political activist, linguist and philosopher at MIT.The gist that I gathered from the discussion is that the world is made for the affluent. Nobody gives a damn about social justice, equality, liberty and those standard phrases that go with freedom. It is all a charade. The idea of politics is just to fatten the selected few. The rich get richer, and the poor become poorer as time goes on and the rich squeeze more from the poor.
In a press conference recently in 2014, an executive from a multinational company unabashedly told the pressmen that his firm made medicine for the wealthy Western patients who could afford it, not poor Indians, justifying his company's inflated prices of products. The dream of medical advances being developed for humanity remains only in the compilations of Medical History books. In 1929, George Merck allegedly had said, "We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been."Medicine is no more the 'noble' profession that the Catholic nuns and Fathers used to clamour to do. In 1978 when Nestle was sued for causing malnutrition in underdeveloped countries amongst babies whose mothers could not read the instructions on the labels, the company had the cheek to say that they make products for the rich and middle class. They cannot be blamed if the poor wants to mimic the affluent. And they certainly cannot be blamed for the lack of clean water facilities (used to make tainted milk that caused gastroenteritis) and illiteracy (that is the inefficiency of the ruling powers). So the world is the stage for the rich. The poor are there for the numbers and create the market. Nobody gives a rat's ass about the weak. It is all rhetorics to cloud the eyes of the poor to satisfy one's private intent.
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