AGL 38.10 Decreased By ▼ -0.06 (-0.16%)
AIRLINK 136.75 Increased By ▲ 2.56 (1.91%)
BOP 9.22 Increased By ▲ 0.37 (4.18%)
CNERGY 4.75 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (1.28%)
DCL 8.83 Increased By ▲ 0.16 (1.85%)
DFML 38.44 Decreased By ▼ -1.34 (-3.37%)
DGKC 85.40 Increased By ▲ 0.25 (0.29%)
FCCL 35.35 Increased By ▲ 0.45 (1.29%)
FFBL 76.99 Increased By ▲ 1.39 (1.84%)
FFL 12.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.31%)
HUBC 108.79 Decreased By ▼ -0.66 (-0.6%)
HUMNL 14.74 Increased By ▲ 0.64 (4.54%)
KEL 5.55 Increased By ▲ 0.15 (2.78%)
KOSM 8.05 Increased By ▲ 0.30 (3.87%)
MLCF 40.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.67 (-1.62%)
NBP 71.40 Increased By ▲ 1.70 (2.44%)
OGDC 194.75 Increased By ▲ 1.13 (0.58%)
PAEL 27.00 Increased By ▲ 0.79 (3.01%)
PIBTL 7.48 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (0.81%)
PPL 167.95 Increased By ▲ 4.10 (2.5%)
PRL 26.25 Decreased By ▼ -0.11 (-0.42%)
PTC 20.40 Increased By ▲ 0.93 (4.78%)
SEARL 92.84 Increased By ▲ 8.44 (10%)
TELE 7.89 Decreased By ▼ -0.10 (-1.25%)
TOMCL 35.32 Increased By ▲ 1.27 (3.73%)
TPLP 8.98 Increased By ▲ 0.26 (2.98%)
TREET 17.34 Increased By ▲ 0.16 (0.93%)
TRG 59.50 Decreased By ▼ -1.50 (-2.46%)
UNITY 31.00 Increased By ▲ 2.04 (7.04%)
WTL 1.39 Increased By ▲ 0.02 (1.46%)
BR100 10,895 Increased By 118.9 (1.1%)
BR30 32,660 Increased By 426.2 (1.32%)
KSE100 101,357 Increased By 1274.6 (1.27%)
KSE30 31,488 Increased By 295 (0.95%)
Print Print 2016-05-25

Partly Facetious: Untold wealth generates envy

"What's the expression: whatever you touch turns to dust...."
Published May 25, 2016

"What's the expression: whatever you touch turns to dust...."
"The King Midas myth was different: whatever he touched turned to gold including food and in some versions of the myth, his daughter, and so he began to hate the gift conferred to him by a Greek god at his own request by the way... "
"Was the gold turning capacity limited to his hands alone?"
"No I think it was his entire body."
"See that just explains that we as human beings need limits, or clearly defined boundaries and when we don't have boundaries we kind of go haywire if you know what I mean."
"I actually don't know what you mean? If you are referring to the Panama leaks then let me bring it to your notice that untold wealth generates envy and in a public figure accusations are bound to follow."
"Untold as in not being told, or untold as in incalculable?"
"Don't be facetious my point is simply this: if there are limits to corruption then it keeps the system well oiled..."
"I don't get you?"
"Let me recount what someone told me when I was en route to Karachi. Bhattha (extortion) is effective if the amount is reasonable which can be written off as a small input cost and it doesn't escalate from year to year at a percentage higher than the rate of inflation. But if it doesn't, and that's the case when there are competing extortionists...."
"But what if they work for the same entity?"
"Don't distract me silly, anyway when I said whatever the ruling party is doing is turning into dust I was referring to the decision of the Punjab government to declare the start of summer holidays from 24 May and viola! Allah be praised the weather changed on the eve of 23 May and became extremely pleasant."
"Why do you see the glass as half full every time....the good weather was Allah's gift to the children of Punjab!"
"Ha ha ha, indeed."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2016

Comments

Comments are closed.