It is told quite freverently many a times , that free market system is the best. I can’t question that but thanks to many scholars and teachers especially the founding father of Economics Adam Smith for his book Wealth of Nations , which I didn’t completely read. Any fool or stupid understand the following few statements and most likely accepts it as a universal truth.

The supply and demand equation. One need not be a master of Economics to know what it is . It goes like , in ‘free’ markets (not sure about the use of word free) if the demand for a good increases more then the increase of supply, the price of the good increases. Simple isn’t it. End of few statements.

The growth of population in a country like India has been more then exponential.Thanks to our simple ways of living. Not only population , but the people who work as book keepers for other countries real productive work also increased more then exponentially. A bad news and good news to the country as a whole , but a real good news for restaurants , hotels and all people associated with food , becasuse the demand is increasing at a rapid rate. Even if there are ***** star hotels all over the country , in the end they all have to buy from the farmer.

This farmer guy is quite a funny person. He/She exmplefies what one should not strive for in thier life and that is hard work. Being politically correct or gender correct all the time doesn’t look right all the time right! . After all , only men can claim to have committed suicide when they couldn’t feed their families. Let me be more specific, the major major part of the dead bodies in villages that have been floating around since the time we have started becoming rich(thanks to our economic liberalisation of our dear FM turned PM) belong to MEN. Iam quite proud of it and confused.

There is no reason for being proud but there is reason for being confused. The second paragraph of my blog is in contradiction with the third and the fourth and yet both of them are true. I cannot question the wisdom of Adam Smith and the geniouses that have come along after him and at the same time I cannot question the overwhelming empirical evidence. This is not a quantum world for two contradictory things to happen with a probability greate then zero. If the demand for food is increasing rapidly then supply, the price of the commodity increases and who should be the richest guy? Adam Smith says , “the Farmer”. I told you already that the famer is a funny guy. He dies in poverty without collecting his cheque from Mr Smith.

I can’t blame it on the Corporations, which are generally the cause of much of misery for the people who don’t know farming and more of fickle-minded happiness. Our dear Government takes care of the farmer, to the extent that a beggar in a metro at a four road junction earns more then the farmer. How do I prove it? I see the same beggar day after day, but some farmers are generally missing everytime I try to recount.

A citizen of free India is being reduced to take the free doles ,which the Government regularly plans for their well being. There is no more stupidity then giving more credit and free power. The real solution is to show the market where he can freely sell . Whether farmers need free power or not is the question. Why can’t they pay their bills when they are doing such an honourable job second only to soldiers who protect the country? That is why it is said ‘Jai Jawan ,Jai Kisan’ and not ‘Jai Indira Gandhi , Jai Rajiv Gandhi, Jai Feroze Gandhi,Jai Sonia Gandhi’ . All these Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers are actually far more worthless then the farmer who goes out and toils in the hot sun to provide food for all of us and in the process making his living.

This obvious overflow of emotion in a rather funny story was quite uncalled for , and I will revert to the man. The man is Ratan Tata. If there is any corporation which I like to an extent, it is Tata. The man got everything in his life but not a wife , which is actually good. Atleast there won’t be any sons or daughter heirs to the apparent throne of TATA.Wherever there is no discrimination based on birth , I respect it and where ever there is undue advantage based on birth I wish i could neutralise it. He like ,many of us believes the 1lakh car is more important then the farming land.

Iam a simple neighbour hood guy who likes simple rules like Einstein and Adam smith. So here is the law , ‘necessity should be satisfied first and comfort or luxury should not be at the cost of necessity’. A simpe question? Car, food identify the necessary good among the two and apply the above law.

The farmer dude , was the champion not long ago in 1970’s I guess. The Government of India was finally able to bring laws like the removal of right to property, such they could take the land from the big zamindars, who got the land from the kings, who don’t know why they gave it to zamindars , and I don’t know why there are kings. The zamindars , or nizams and other people until then behaved as if God has asked them to run as fast as they can and come back and take all the land they covered to and fro. Farmers got the land and there was a revolution of sorts with little bit of modern education applied to farming(Green revolution) and India never had the problem of Food , though it’s citizens were hungry. It is inscribed in the Constitution that distribution of wealth is one of the duties or the directive principles of the states. So it worked, until the farmers were told one fine morning that since zamindars lost their right to property and it no where says only zamindars have lost the right, it applies to all citizens so now farmers also lost the right and should be prepared to give their land for the ‘common good’ or else declare themselves as aliens and go and live with Stephen Spielberg.

I don’t know whose personal selfishness is farming but it seems that industrialists work for ‘more common good’ and that the farmer has to give up his land and start enrolling their families and himself in the National Rural Employment Gaurantee scheme , work as daily labourers to build the SEZ’s and factories within, on their land and once everything is built he is not allowed to enter since he doesn’t wear the computer processed identification tag around his neck, which were mostly worn by dogs to identify themseleves in previous generations.

Yes one more point, while working to build the factory for common good. Sonia Gandhi is proud that rural Employment Gaurantee scheme is a sucess. Farmers got Employment , hence money. Industries are being built hence money. Workers are geting jobs hence money and Supreme Court is able to identify what is common good and what is not and hence money for them too. The farmers earnings makes him poorer and more dependent on Soniaji day after day, while the rest of the world zooms around thanks to the farmer turned labourer. It is all stupid economics.

http://kkamesh.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/10/stupid-economics-and-the-story-of-our-farmers.htm