Want To Serve Country? Start Earning!
Everybody in India aspires to serve the country. When it comes to serving the country, one can imagine joining the military, civil services, or opening an NGO. What individuals never believe that all the previously mentioned services are reliant upon the citizen's tax. Hence the higher the tax the better these services will be able to work. On average Indian government spends approximately two thousand billion rupees annually. Most of the spending goes into interest payments, pensions, subsidies, central sector schemes, etc. All this spending needs strong finance.
Presently, everyone is going after a service that requires citizen's tax, then who will pay for it? Hence the biggest service one can render to the nation is by generating wealth. More wealth means more tax which eventually makes these services better. Let's understand this with an example, USA is the biggest superpower in the world. Its Defence budget is enough to explain the point. The Defence budget of USA is 740 billion dollars which is more than the combined Defence budget of the following ten nations. USA is a superpower because it is the wealthiest country in the world which has 614 billionaires and a lot of millionaires. Hence, we can say that power of a country is directly proportional to the wealth it possesses.
So, if we want to serve our country then we should start by earning. The more we earn the more we will be able to contribute to the development of our nation. We can do this by increasing our exports, services, foreign remittances, investing in foreign companies, etc. Globalization has narrowed the boundaries in the market, yet we are not able to harness the power of globalization. It is the time when we need to stop working in MNCs and start building MNCs. There are numerous things to be done at this moment to create our image in the global market.
We can never become a superpower if we are only chasing nine to five jobs. When more than forty lakh individuals apply for a railway group D post then we ought to comprehend that it isn't the issue of absence of opportunities but our mediocrity that we are not able to overcome. From decades when a child is born, parents say a doctor or an engineer, why not an entrepreneur? The problem is our mediocre thinking which is not letting us achieve the greatness we possess. The time has come that people should realize that we need to level up from the middle class to the upper class. We need more millionaires and billionaires. "It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit"- Les Brown.
