In language of economics a desire does not mean
anything until and unless get a monetary backing. The money, a medium of
exchange, has only capacity of making desire a reality. This hardcore economic proposition
has a limitation indeed. Time and again desire does an immense shock to the
nature of social advancement. To turn into an effective demand shall not be binding
upon the desire. Desire is such an attitude of life which play beyond length
and breadth of economics at ease. It never bothers the market fundamentals. A demand
for goods and services so does fair enough. But desire, an invisible quotient
of human psychology, on both count of good and bad has enough to do.
Pix by Amit K Sikder
Amazingly a desire for a good
always may not be manifested a good. Be at a stake on its way to get a reality if
a good desire avail unfair means the society suffers worse. Without a solid surveillance
of education and belief derailment of a good deed of desire at the end is
obvious.
The Gurukul system of
education, a type of spiritual education system, whose origin dates back to
around 5000 BC in the Indian subcontinent where students were taught various
subjects and mainly how to live cultured and disciplined life. The moral of
simple living and high thinking was the key postulate of the system. Today it
is mostly commercialised and the desire of education falls prey to profit. Here
economics can take a note of the literacy figure, skilled labour, employment
growth etc but miserably fails to count the ethic index of the labour force as
well as its productivity. Thus a critical labour law and wage policy may not
produce enough. The lack of moral concern in education, beyond productivity is
subject to a huge social cost. On the other hand the profit motive of
organisations sometimes may not go in tandem with labourer’s wish and produce
conflict and costs the society. Exchange of better cooperation comes only from a
moral gesture not from the mere education of production technique and
management. Moreover I would like to say that managing something may not be a
sustainable solution to a problem. Here the urge of making education an
industry is within the reach of economics but the real desire of education is
in distress at the hand of profit motivation (a profit economics).
A desire for building a
better society, nation never sound bad if and only if it is monitored by a fair
and generous attitude. To get hold on to best intention is a hard assignment
given complex socio-economic protocol. At this fatal injecture stand firm and
fight with the evil’s foray deserves a pat.
Most of evils like
poverty, economic deprivation, corruption, racial discrimination, climate-influenced
migration and hunger etc all prevalent in society today are visible dragon of
desire. Economics has less to do with it though it minutely reads the
behavioural aspects. Taking the case of poverty we see how governments are
putting their best effort and policies in curbing its reckless growth, but the
whole has failed to a greater extent. The economic deprivation is an integral
part of poverty. The class disparity mainly pivoting to this crisis and a wider
spread of a sense of discrimination is provoking numbers of social aspects.
Racial discrimination is very costly to the development of society, hampers the
core economic fundamentals harshly but Economics here is helpless. In my
opinion the consideration of rationality here bypass a lot in arresting the
social cost.
The best capability of
every fundamentals in society get realised optimally if the foundation of life
is based on an ethical spirit. The ethic has a bias in law in a sense but
guided exclusively by an internal motivation that’s its only one of its kind.
An economics may fail to
arrest the diversified dimension of desire but a moral policing could bring us
a better environment curtailing the social cost to an extent.
In the midst of pandemic the
domestic violence has grown manifold. Among all reasons the fear of economic
insecurity here plays a big. A desire for a minimum livelihood can’t be denied but
most painfully here the desire turns violent in want of opportunities. This limited
desire of survival is a fundamental right but the economics fails to reach. We
want that economics which is ready to console the desire crying for a monetary
backing so that the dream of minimum livelihood become a reality.