Hello Frenz,
This article on "Fair trade" is all about the so called well civilised society and my perception of the same. Because I am from India, a society of which is being rapidly engulfed by the cancerous growth, most of my opinion would be based on the happenings in India.
As per the current trend in India, "the more India grows, the worse the situation will become". It is not very difficult to conceive the fact that the development in India can be likened to tumors born out of cancer. Where the industries that earn their sustenance from carrying out outsourcing jobs - which account for paltry 2%-hold sway over the society at large;So, there is little chance of everyone being given a fair trade. I am not against the concept of intelligentsia influencing the movement of the society at large if it benefits everyone in the society. But the point is, Is it really fair to allow the cancerous growth to proliferate further to the extent to damage the root of civilization? what on earth makes outsourcing industries as a dangerous one? What sort of action should be taken to prevent the things we don't want to see from happening?
If I hurriedly suggest to abolish the outsourcing industries, it would be no different from gouging out an eye just because the other one is blind. So what could be the pragmatic approach to solve the problem? ofcourse, every possible reasonable thinking would invariably arrive at restoring the light to the other eye. In a country where 80% of the population lives on the incomes mostly derived from agri and agri related fields, the agriculture is being marginalized and the dependants of agri are being driven out of their own profession to which they are emotionally attached. The emotional attachment is the only reason for why they still in the same field even after enduring persistent problems. Ethically speaking, the money earned should be in commensurate with the "work " spent on any field.The term work here means a figure that is assigned after considering contributing forces - inclusive of mental strain, physical effort invested. The above said argument forms the premise of my argument and I hope it would fetch acceptance even from a person who remains with an ounce of morality. But unfortunately the unavailability of the hypothetical figure prevents us from taking any steps having that figure as a basis for fixing the pay scale. But thankfully our intuition will come in handy to understand the veracity of the argument I am gonna put forth.
For a moment, Lets go beyond the limit that has been explored till now, I mean let us get into an era where the "means" to do a work is freely available as chip which can be planted into the human brain. "Means" here may be considered as technical proficiency required to do a work, so effectively peoples' success would ooze from other much needed attributes like focus, dedication, hard work and consistency etc. In that era, employees of outsourcing industries would be financially strapped just like farmers today. which would lead to a reversal of prosperity of people, for simple reason that the pay scale in out souring software industry which causes trouble and turbulence in other sectors, is not an indicator of attributes under consideration, rather, that is much hyped and exaggerated figure which is of no significant importance. This pay scale is only possible because of the discrepancy exists between USD and RS. I confess my ignorance of forces resulting this unfair trade. Now we are in an era where small indigenous companies are mopped up by large ones just because of the existence of money value difference. Definitely, in the era I envisage I've discredited the focus and determination needed to acquire the means to do a job. But, if we consider two persons, one who was not able to continue his/her studies there by became a handicap to get into a software industry but otherwise having all other factors for success and the other one who slipped into an engineering college and consequently into an outsourcing industry, whom a rationale mind want to be successful? undeniably the work to acquire the means is lesser in the latter's case but ironically the latter would be given a royal treatment if he managed to stick around the outsourcing industry for a while. Raising vanity inside our mind based on the pay scale is definitely gonna be short lived.
Perhaps, the main problem in India would be the awful gap between the technological advancements and real time applications. When the advancements fail to percolate through every stratum of society thereby reaching the root of the society, those technological feats are just trash meant to waste some worthy peoples' life time. The appalling nature of the society will only be changed when the yawning gap is traversed. This problem is partly caused by the education system itself but I refrain from commenting on it further in this article.
The main motive of this article is to drive home a point that we are blissful by blindfolding ourselves and shirking away from our responsibilities to bring the light to another eye of the society which is on the brink of blindness. To brighten up our prospects we don't douse the future of our fellow brethren.
Definitely we are not sadists. Are we?
