In a private organization, a vision is set for the organization. To achieve the vision, the organization would employ people with appropriate terms and conditions.
In a government organization, the employees would set a personal vision for themselves. The employees would expect the organization to work towards achieving the personal vision of the employees. In case the organization does not do that, the employees and/or prospective employees may fight and even destroy the public properties.
Whenever I hear, "Speak only Truth", I always feel uncomfortable.
If someone asks me, how much salary am I getting, why should I tell the truth? I don't want to tell how much I am earning. Most of the time, I generate a random number and I tell that number.
If anyone still says, I should speak only the truth, then I would like to ask a few questions and get the truth from them.
What is the username/password of your internet banking account?
What is your email password which is linked with all your social accounts?
Can you tell me the OTP that you have just received on your mobile?
Some time back, when I was doing one transaction with a person, that person asked me to tell a lie to the middleman, so that the brokerage would be saved. I refused for multiple reasons. Main reason was, I need that broker for my future transactions and if there is any breach of trust now, I won't get any favorable deals later on.
In another case, I forced one person to tell a lie to the middleman, so that I could save the brokerage. [I paid the brokerage for the initial contract, and wanted to avoid brokerage for the extension of the contract.]
In a few cases, I refused to tell lies, because the lie is not convincing.
In a few other cases, I did not tell lies, because I did not have answers for the follow up questions that may come.
There was at least one instance (there might be more), when I told the absolute truth, but I tried to tell in such a way that, everyone thought, it was a lie.
Whether I tell lies or truth depends on multiple things. Don't expect truth from me.
I heard the following statement from many people in many different situations.
Since, it is not going to benefit any of us, it should not be done.
My response used to be, what are you going to lose, if it is done? Since I get some benefit out of it, this needs to be done. If you are going to lose anything out of it, then we will discuss that and see how we can resolve that.
Rich are becoming richer. Poor are becoming poorer.
When people say the above, they implicitly criticize that the rich are robbing the poor people.
Except politicians and other people who have government power, rich people are not robbing poor people.
Rich people are becoming richer by utilizing every opportunity that they have without missing even one small opportunity.
They are becoming richer by improving their skills, knowledge and other things.
They are becoming richer by taking good advice given by anyone.
They are becoming richer by selecting/electing the right leaders who can lead them.
They are becoming richer by utilizing all their resources in the most efficient way and ignoring anything that is unnecessary.
Many rich people know the Win-Win concept.
Poor people might be still poor, maybe because they are not getting enough opportunities.
Poor people might be still poor, maybe because they do not have enough money to improve their skills or knowledge.
Also, I know many people, who did not take the opportunity, because it is a very small opportunity and their goal is very big. [Any visionary would say, when you cannot run, walk. When you cannot walk, crawl. Move towards your goal even at very small speed, but move.]
I know many people who are reluctant to take advice from anyone except great leaders.
I heard from many people that, when they were ready to provide some free training, people who could have improved from that training, did not come for various (silly) reasons (and not for the reason of losing their day's income.)
I know many people who unnecessarily fight for unnecessary things and waste their time and resources.
I know many people who do not know how to select a leader who can improve their life.
I know many people who do not understand the Win-Win concept (Everyone wins in that), and they think everything is a Zero-Sum game (One's loss is another's gain. If myself and another person are collaborating in something, and if I am not going to lose, then they implicitly assume that the other person is going to lose.)
Rich are becoming richer, and poor are becoming poorer are two independent statements. There is no relation between them. If anyone is worried about the poor becoming poorer, they need to concentrate on how to improve the poor people's life, and not think about dragging rich people down.
Sometimes I used to wonder, whether I am doing anything for society or not.
Then, I realized that anyone who earns the same or more than what they consume is useful to society.
Many people are getting employment because you are alive and consuming. Even if you are living with basic necessities, you would be consuming food and other groceries, you might be travelling by bus or train etc. To provide those facilities to you, someone is getting employment (even if it is a fraction of their total employment).
If you are a rich person who splurges money on many things, then there would be many people living on you. Without you, the total employment would reduce.
Apart from that, I pay a lot of income tax. (It is not my problem, if people don't vote for good candidates for the efficient use of that money.)
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