31/10/2023
’s intellectual nosedive!
By Dr.
Narayana Murthy sir, till about a decade back when I used to write on , you used to be a constant example of many a good thing. And back in 2006 when I touched your feet, it was with heartfelt respect. Of course after giving India a million me-too Management writers, I stopped writing on Management & now I concentrate only on Economics & . Thankfully that requires a bit more IQ & education!
Evidently didn’t give that education to you, so here are 3 lessons for you.
1. While in the evolved world of today, it’s a shame to think of making people work beyond 32 hrs a week/ 4 days a week your talk of 70+ hrs a week only shows how backward your vision is.
Mr Murthy, were born to holiday, chase their , have s*x or simply laze around. They were born to travel, to play music, to make art, to write poems & to innovate. The last thing they are born to do is to get up at 6 in the morning to rush to office at 9 and work till 5pm. Oops! 9pm if one were to go by you.
Unfortunately they have to work to earn money to even have basic necessities met, thanks to Greedy Intellectually Dwarfed leaders like you who think no ends of their ability to distribute uninitiated half baked gyan only because they have made a billion dollar Corporation, aided heavily by paying really and mopping up land mass through government …. people who think that the 40/48 hrs a week isn’t enough of exploitation to give workers a substandard existence to make two ends meet.
It only strengthens the perspective that every is a failure of the state.
2. Like religion & marriage this 9-5 work is a man made system that's working as of now. But in a humane world of tomorrow, like the rest two, it's bound to disappear. In future human beings will do what they feel like and society will still take care of their basic needs, education, health & shelter. And it will be aided heavily by robots and . Fighting for such a future is what is the least expected from leaders like you— if not fighting for higher & reducing .
3. Lastly— In economics any turn from Left to Right is the beginning of Intellectual Death.
That seems to be your case. You were a leftist in your student days. To justify your initial right turn, you maintained you are a compassionate capitalist (which is absolutely fair in the ecosystem one lives in) but now you sound like a monstrous capitalist. Going by the way you became silent on matters of human & political importance since 2014, we already got a clear impression of your intellectual downfall. One only wonders if it’s your right wing, homophonic, anti-people, war mongering & soon to be ousted son-in-law taking a toll on you; Or it’s a fall of your own creation due to erosion of all human values which once made you different from all other corporate leaders.
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