The rich don\u2019t have just wealth and resources they have means to tolerate violence \u2014 up to a degree. Beyond that, they generally hit back with more violence to quell the opposition.<\/p>\n
Poor people and communities are familiar with this behaviour and the scenario and so they try to accommodate and tolerate the large gap between the rich with their wealth and resources and their own\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0down to earth \u00a0lives.\u00a0<\/em>They have learnt to live with the differences \u2014 economic and social. They may sometimes blame God for this type of existence and hope that God will be kind to them in future.<\/p>\n However, ordinary people \u2014 not rich or just so-so money wise, are connected with the wealthy resourceful people in different ways. If the rich own industries, or big shops, ordinary people work in them. Even otherwise, ordinary (poor men) work as drivers of rich people\u2019s cars or trucks. Women generally work as maids in rich people\u2019s home \u2014 they may look after the children as baby sitters or work in people\u2019s kitchens . Thus the interaction between communities and people continues harmoniously in various ways.<\/p>\n All that I have described above is for the good of people \u2014 wealthy as well as not so rich and resourceful. People have learnt to live with the economic differences. Problems arise when some people from the latter category try to rebel against this status quo.<\/p>\n They feel that that the rich are rich by exploiting the ordinary not-rich category of people. This may be true in some cases when this category of people \u2014 generally youngsters and those that are politically motivated try to act against this situation by open rebellion or silent opposition. They feel that the rich have become so by exploiting the ordinary (poor) people. Thus,\u00a0\u00a0they act in clear opposition of the people they feel are exploiting them and garnering their resources.<\/p>\n This type of situation is present not only in many countries of Asia, South Africa, but to an extent in America also. In USA which is considered the richest country in the world, also has large pockets of not so rich people. There is poverty although it is not so blatant and blunt as in some Asian, African countries. How the country USA, is handling the economic situation is quite commendable. One does not see open poverty and exploitation of people but it is there if one observes carefully. The government there, and political, economic experts have evolved a situation where the rich continue to be rich and resourceful without pushing the not so rich people to extreme degradation\u2014 social and economic.<\/p>\n One can argue as some experts do, that such a situation is tragic and may lead to open opposition and violence. However, the USA is doing well in different spheres and there is political and economic stability there.<\/p>\n One could argue that other countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America could follow the American model and they could also improve their social, economic status. To an extent this may be correct but one cannot duplicate the American model wholly. Different political experiments are taking place in several countries with different results \u2014 some successful, some not so.<\/p>\n The world is evolving in different ways \u2014 economically, socially, politically. One cannot feel that only a particular model will succeed completely and reduce violence and exploitation.<\/p>\n Let us try different models and hope that some of them will improve the world and usher in prosperity, goodwill and peace in the world.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________<\/p>\n The world we are familiar with, has different types of diversities \u2014 linguistics, social, economic, cultural, and scientific, etc. Considering these and other related differences, perhaps the economic diversities are fairly quite pronounced and tragic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":166069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243172,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243171\/revisions\/243172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ravi-P.-Bhatia-150x150-1-e1596524021103.jpg\")
<\/a> Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a>, an<\/em> educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"