
The lavish wedding in India this weekend which cost more than $ 250 Mio. is seen as the pleasure of the richest Indian man and the second richest Indian family. The combined wealth of both families is a statement against the government and the people of India not to tough their position in society ever. Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates in attendance pay tribute to this strategy.
Wealth comes from positions in power such as Kings or Dictators handed down to generations that follow. It also comes from business activities of clever, innovative, courageous, or ruthless men or a combination of such characteristics. Some representatives of old and new money see their fortune as the blessings of hard work and dedication with the inner felt need to share it with others. Old money is not from Adam and Eva but dies the ultimate death after happy hundreds of years.
India was reigned for hundreds of years by royal families which generated their fortune from the hard labor and sweat of their subjects. Armed forces kept the subjects in check as done all across the globe in similar settings.
The spirit of entrepreneurship of the highest and high class saw rich families become exceptionally rich. Some overtook the position of the royal families especially under democratic rule. The widening of international trade to the level of globalization increased inequality in Indian society. 1% of Indians own 40% of the Indian assets. While most Indians live the poor man's life a handful of others show off their fortune like others eat pizzas on TikTok. The rest of the Indians go hungry and look in the garbage bins for a few traces of food. Low or lowest cast know their best education or entrepreneurship skills will not permit them to drive a Rolls-Royce through the poor quarters of Mumbai.
Startup founders in Western societies are often pampered by foreign or local nations with tax relief or state-paid subsidies to create jobs through which the financial advantages given over time eventually will come back to society and the public money purse.
Unlike these societies, the level of corruption in India is exceedingly high, besides a very slow bureaucracy. At all levels of society bribing public officers is common while it is uncommon in the society of Gates and Zuckerberg. Corruption at the Indian scale is to the advantage of the rich and famous while to the disadvantage of the common Indian citizen and voters. Yet as the biggest democracy in the world, the voters were yet not able to eradicate corruption from the nation or abolish the devastating caste system. Even modern technology keeps the Indian bureaucracy still in its place of inefficiency. The fundamental mindset has not evolved to a higher level of sharing more equal the common wealth of the subcontinent.
While simple minds see criticism of this wedding as a sign of jealousy of less fortunate minds serious people with foresight and intellectual capacity on the other hand witness the massive inequality, potential risk to society, and unfairness to moral and human values. The happiness of a couple that is supposed to carry the nation into a brighter future does not lie in the wedding ceremony but in the hearts and minds of a responsible couple able and willing to demonstrate its readiness and maturity to perform on its mandate by respectful means and ways.
While this wedding is a declaration of money against the people of India foreigners feel flattered to be invited to this event and applaud the cast system for working well. Eating lobster, caviar, and expensive food from around the world Boris Johnson and Toni Blair steadfastly keep a blind eye on the hungry people of India who for generations had died and lost their blood for a few others to invite them to a lavish banquet.