Honesty is a word of the past! The high-sounding words like ‘honesty’, ‘integrity’ and ‘truthfulness’ do not carry any meaning any more. It is money and money all the way, right from the top to the bottom. The end justifies the means. If the end is to accumulate wealth, the means could be anything – deception, outright dishonesty or forgeries. The god of ‘money’ is all-powerful, as he can swiftly wash-off all the sins associated with the means to accumulate cash.
Your respectability is directly relevant to your wealth. More the money, higher is the level of your respectability. The flaunting of wealth gives one an enormous status-symbol. If you have the money, you are all powerful. You can easily relate yourself with the mighty and the rich. The world is at your finger-tips. Money can buy you your prestige, politics, power, business, religion and even your educational degrees. And who really bothers about the colour of your money – whether black or otherwise?
I remember an incident that took place about four decades ago. A man got caught for cheating a bank-branch a huge amount of Rs 50,000/- (by the then standard). His father, who was a co-accused, cooperated with the Police and spilled the beans. The entire ill-gotten money was subsequently recovered in no time. The son looked disappointed and confided: ‘Look, my Dad is so inexperienced. He made a fool of himself by telling all to the Police. He could have instead bribed himself out by spending a fraction from out of the money we made! I feel, the man’s strategy was workable.
Now, if this is the mind-set of the petty-thugs, the more sophisticated, the more educated and the more experienced amongst the white collared swindles certainly have better ideas of creating wealth by dodging the law. Cheats, swindlers and fraudsters have very bright future indeed!
I remember an incident that took place about four decades ago. A man got caught for cheating a bank-branch a huge amount of Rs 50,000/- (by the then standard). His father, who was a co-accused, cooperated with the Police and spilled the beans. The entire ill-gotten money was subsequently recovered in no time. The son looked disappointed and confided: ‘Look, my Dad is so inexperienced. He made a fool of himself by telling all to the Police. He could have instead bribed himself out by spending a fraction from out of the money we made! I feel, the man’s strategy was workable.
Now, if this is the mind-set of the petty-thugs, the more sophisticated, the more educated and the more experienced amongst the white collared swindles certainly have better ideas of creating wealth by dodging the law. Cheats, swindlers and fraudsters have very bright future indeed!
