Recently I took a ride home from one of my dad's friend who happens to be an industrialist. As is the case with these elderly people, he started talking about life and money. He started with how so many people have made a lot of money in real estate in the hi-tech area and how he was a happier person than someone having 500 crores.
He wondered, "When all you need to live comfortably is 5 crores so why would anyone want more ? It is not as if these big people can even spend money - they have diabetes, bp, what not...! Most become obsessed with money and they dont even feel like spending on domestic help like a driver, gardener, cook, assistant etc.. but the person who makes even 1 crore/year in a company - like a General Manager is much happier since he automatically gets all the perks mentioned above in addition to staying in 5 star hotels whenever he goes on official visits ......"
The scale at which he was talking felt pretty wierd to me :). It looks like everyone, be it a govt employee, an IT professional or an industrialist, thinks they belong to the lower middle class :).
Something equally wierd happened at office today, but that is a post for a later time...
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