Being a developed nation depends on the ease and cost-effectiveness of doing things within the borders. In this world, the fact of the matter is that nations compete ruthlessly with each other for the resources the planet offers, which also include other human beings. A country with its residents at their best alone is best enabled for the competition.
The cruel reality of the world is that rich nations and people use other human beings as resources. This is the unavoidable reality. The wise thing to do for one is to use others and get used by others judiciously in a balance favouring self. The good thing is that in the modern capitalist age, one can demand and get user charges. The fairness of charges is best ensured by the capitalist system itself. A nation or person needs more of a capitalist order for fairness in everything one may legitimately desire. Other systems extract forced labour and even sacrifices of lives without any compensation.
Being a most developed nation, the nation would facilitate its every member with the easiest way to do things worth doing and bearing the least cost for doing those worthy things. Such a nation would also be capable of getting a fair share of global resources and defending itself from rogue forces.
Entrepreneurship is the prime of all engagements human beings undertake. Entrepreneurs serve the people and communities by offering them goods and services they need and in the process they generate surpluses which feed the agencies of order, art, sciences, and literature. Moreover, it ensures an ambience in which one can attain spiritual bliss. It is unrestricted entrepreneurship which translates into high culture. The decay and the resultant wretchedness are directly proportionate to the restrictions put on people and their enterprises.
A poor nation is poor because of its habit of making things complicated for its constituents and imposing costs, fair and unfair, disproportionately to the value of services public agencies provide to the people. A poor nation also sees its government as an agency sui generis and fails to scrutinise and mend the mechanism based on cost-benefit analysis.
The issue I have raised above is the most obvious thing to say but the irony is that the nation's operative epistemology and system work mostly in contradistinction. We need to decolonise our minds from pathogenic leftist ideologies.
Niraj Kumar Jha
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