I was in my company orientation
class. A senior manager in the company came to take the session and she was
giving introduction about the company. She told what the company does is for
the benefit of the society. For this my friend asked if the purpose of the
company was to help the society or to make profits. She answered it was making
profits but we can’t tell that outside and that we should only say we work for
helping the society. Another guy asked “why would we say our goal is to make
money?” This question says it all!
I was reminded of this incident I’ve
read in Atlas Shrugged. Hank Rearden is a steel industry owner and he very
openly states he’s in the business to make money. But his advisor tells him not
to say such things in public and to project himself to be altruistic.
Everyone wants to please others.
Everyone wants to give people what they want, tell people what they want to
hear, even if it’s not their truth. Everyone cheat others and themselves to
show them to be virtuous and that too based on what others consider a virtue.
People find it so difficult to believe and accept the truth for what it is.
They are more afraid to tell the truth.
Looking at all this, maybe movies
are much more realistic than the “real” world is.
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