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Free Lunches for Indian Capitalists

 

 

Indian Corporates were living and thriving on ‘free lunches’, post independence. They don’t seem to have the constraints other capitalists face in other countries. Some of the visible ones are,

1)      Low capital costs or low interest on capital.

2)      No visible R&D costs for product development and improvements

3)      No cost of living allowances to be paid to employees.

4)      No compulsion to generate skilled labor by participating in academic development.

5)      No marginal pricing or cost based welfare pricing

6)      No fair exchange need be maintained in transactions including efficient products to be vended.

7)      Low implementation of commercial law criterion in doing business.

 

These are some of the nearly visible sops the Indian capitalists enjoy when embarking on doing business in India which their counterparts in well developed capitalists countries don’t have. This tantamount to vandal running of commerce in a nation.

Now that the government has raised the interest rates and reserve requirement the capitalists community need not be worried so much that they have literally a free lunch provided to by the environment in everything they do.

Academia is designed in India to accommodate this free lunch policies to capitalists. New employees as well as the old ones work as if there is no constraints in their work.

So folks what do you think about this.

 
4 comments on "Indian Capitalists had been eating "Free Lunches" all these years !!!"
  Commented by  Mathew Cherian, Research Associate/Analyst, Western Michigan University    | 04 23 2010 06:37:11 +0000
Thnks guys, one other I missed was competition. Indian corporates never had to face competition like the ones faced by their western counterparts. Resoruces so gets allocated to the slopy and iresponsible rather through the Darwinian route which can be troublesome for the country in the long run. 
Hopefuly like Ayan says things will change. Then it is a big ship to turn around where the citizen are like Labrorers who cannot fathom their own ignorance in the words of Henry David Thoroue.
  Commented by  Nikhil Jain, Senior Consultant, Hewitt Associates    | 04 21 2010 07:58:48 +0000
Interesting and informative insight Mathew..... Thanks for sharing..... :)
  Commented by  Ajay Ziz, CLERK,,, University of Jammu    | 04 21 2010 07:46:40 +0000
cherian YES ..
  Commented by  Ayan Choudhury, Coresspondent, NDTV    | 04 21 2010 07:05:47 +0000
Good one Mr.Mathew..Really the industry dynamics is changing & new challenges & opportunities are being confronted by todays capitalists...But slowly the attitude the of doing business will also change. We will see than in India also emphasis is given on quality & value creation.

Keep it up
Thanks..
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