I had decided to move onwards from the protection of Life to the protection of Property – but a power outage, which is a fairly regular occurrence here, made me decide to digress awhile, to discuss Time, by which Life is measured.
All through the power cut, I wasted Time. This happens regularly all over India. Power cuts and traffic jams on broken roads waste a colossal amount of Time. Which is Life.
They say that when one person keeps 60 people waiting for one minute, he wastes one man-hour. Billions of man-hours are wasted in India because of our The State. Power cuts, traffic jams, queues and long procedures at government departments, broken highways, slow trains etc.
Yet, Time is the most important “factor of production.” Labour is paid according to Time. Rents on land and buildings are paid monthly. As is interest on Capital. A nation that wastes so much Time wastes all the other factors of production. It remains poor because it can hardly produce.
And there are only two ways of permanently increasing incomes – one, by increasing the amount of Capital employed alongside Labour; and two, which follows from the first, producing more in the same Time, which means increasing Productivity. Neither happens much in India. Hence permanent poverty.
I am therefore of the opinion that what India really needs is a TRANSPORTATIONAL REVOLUTION. Much can be achieved by people themselves buying cars, fast boats, airplanes and the like, but I would like to see the Public Purse invest heavily in a top-class roads infrastructure. Contrast the “common profit” derived from such a public investment to the cheap rice and rural works programmes of our The State.
So don’t vote. Think!
Your Time is your Life – and it is being wasted by The Socialist Democratic State.
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