Often it is said that wealth is evil, that one should have only that much wealth which he need for his survival. The brotherhood, the big family and common good comes into play. It is said that Rich must pay Tax to help poor.
Let us consider there is a factory of 1000 individuals working together according to their abilities and earning according to their work performance. Each man who works better gets better rewards. But there remain some workers who just cannot work enough to get rewards, yet everyone is free to utilize his time the best way possible to earn according to his needs. So, influenced by the view of altruistic common good, they all decided and voted for a new system completely based on Altruism which stated that every Individual will work according to his best abilities, and every individual will get earnings shared equally according to their needs. They were all free to choose for it and they did.
Now, needs of a man cannot be determined. He needs food, he needs cloths, he needs shelter, he needs medicines for his ailing father, he needs jewels for his wife, education for his child, he needs coffee and beer, cream and butter, he need chapatti and chicken, he needs computer and television. Why would not he need a car? And if he needs a car, why won’t he need a helicopter or a yacht? If he needs a television why won’t he need a DVD player, he needs a mosquito repellent, why won’t he need an air conditioner? Needs of Individuals differs, and all that is not possible to be fulfilled by the factory work. So, it was decided that no one is free to decide his own needs, and again a common minimum program was set-up and again same voting. Now, no-one had any individual need. All was social, with common needs. There were no good railways, no cars, no airplanes, no Television, no AC available for any worker.
All were now beggars, they couldn’t earn, they could just demand. Since there was no individual earning, there were no property rights; all was common property, collective welfare. They needed to beg for everything, from water to electricity, from food to medicines, because they were not allowed to earn, they were taught how to beg, they were taught corruption, because by honesty they could not earn.
Now, some of the workers were lazy and cheaters, yet, all were getting same for their work, so the lazy one got lazier, as they had no reason to work. So, the total production and hence the earnings decreased. It was known that some are not working enough, yet all stressed they were working according to their abilities. Yet, production was decreasing. So, there came again a vote to choose freely (though no one was free), to choose the best, honest workers. The hard workers were not rewarded for their honesty, yet they were punished for being good workers. They were enshrined duties to do overtime, to complete the need of the Big Family, “Common Welfare”. All of them suffered and cursed themselves for working more, as it were they who were standing on the furnace, suffering the pain of toil, while the lazy asses were enjoying the common minimum needs without working. Some of them kept struggling for the “common welfare”, some of them broke, and became lazy and corrupt, as it was more beneficial.
A young son of a worker, with new enthusiastic blood and an inventive brain, vowed for the prosperity of the big family. He was not very well-educated, due to common minimum program; education also was average, with improper teachers, laboratories and classes. Yet, he used his individual excellence and discovered a way of work which saved hundreds of work hours. He thought, now big family will improve and his father will get some time to spend with him. He gave that process to the factory, without any fees, he couldn’t, it was all public welfare. Now he was chosen as best worker along with his father. Both were now required to work overtime, for the public welfare. He shut his brain and mouth, and vowed again never to discover. He got corrupted. He accepted the routine work, and tried to do less and less. His younger brother saw it all. He understood, to waste his brain for the public welfare is useless because it will further punish him as his father and brother being punished. He left the house, the factory the big family, and joined a new company totally dependent on earning according to skills. He vowed he will make big money and will have all facilities and needs to be fulfilled, and he will take his old father and brother out of that sluggish statist common minimum program (Brain drain). In the new factory there was a competition to do best of the work to earn more and fulfill one’s needs and rational desires, people used to work freely to earn freely and live happily. The boys got his ethical motive to work honest and hard, and innovate, and he got rewards and blessings to enjoy and live happily, he felt the urge to work more for honest living and discover more for individual benefits. He opened his mind further, and used his intellect for his profits. While his father kept suffering for their honesty, while brother got corrupt, lazy and cheat.
All were now unhappy and suffering in the old factory, because mostly all were getting lazy and cheat, unwilling to work for their best abilities, yet forced to do over work. There were competitions to who does the worst work, because then he will be rewarded to do the minimum work. The intelligent, who understood their worth of hard work, started to fly away from big family. Now the big family had nothing to eat, yet they had others loans and debts to be paid.
Again there was a voting, vote to sell the working unit to pay the debts, to open the markets (Liberalization). Some of the shares and productive units were privatized. The private owners again started to pick the best workers and pay more for the better workers. The lazy workers remained in the old factory system and kept begging for common minimum program, the hard workers started working hard for competition, to earn more and live better. Things again started changing. The workers, who were now earning more, were taxed by the big family, for the benefits of the lazy workers. Though the tax rates were now decreased.
When the lazy workers saw the growth of hard workers, they got jealous that some of them are now earning much better. They again started begging from them and demanded to apply taxes for those too who left the Big family. And they demanded reservation in the private sectors too, to apply the common minimum program.
Not only this, they demanded that those private shareholders of that big family factory must pay each Individual scholarship, Scholarships to vote