How to be like a king all the time??

I second Sudhakar's opinion here...Get the BPL families who represent the vast majority of our population to a level that they can start saving and investing...But for the rest of us, diversifying the risks in different instruments would certainly pep up your cash levels during bad times but would still not make you a KING unless and until you have a QUEEN sitting beside you!

I get reminded of the famous saying of Karl Marx..."When poverty knocks at the door, honesty flies out of the window". I dont think anyone will save sacrificing one of their daily square meals. Its only when you have an excess over your three square meals, then we are talking about savings, investments, financial goals etc. This concept does not make sense to a majority of the population who just scrape through a square meal. Lets first enable the majority to achieve their subsistence level, before we preach savings and investment.Does it sound idealistic? Yes it is..but also a stark reality!!

The question is...'where did we come'?Enjoying, ruling and working are very relative. If we take a literal meaning of these words, then we are being Utopian.If we define our expectation levels based on our situations, we can live our life.The struggle begins only when these two don't resonate on the same wavelength.And Murali,The one and only indelible rule of mankind is adaptability. Yes we depend on nature and will continue to depend.The day we see depletion of nature, we see enormous threats to mankind like global warming, ecological imbalances etc.,And the causal factor is like Dr. Spencer Johnson author of 'who moved my cheese'says "the cheese is limited, consumers are more". The objective should be to quantify the cheese to strike a balance between the cheese and consumers. So it is not nature which depletes us, but we deplete nature. Think brother Murali..and all who read this!!