Economics of Mahaveera

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Adarsh Sahitya Sangh

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Limitation of Individual Ownership
and Personal Consumption
There are today before us two profiles, two images of the society:
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A society having uncontrolled desires, unlimited needs and frivolous consumption: and A society having controlled desires, limited needs and restrained consumption.
Let us analyse these two images in depth. What will that society be like which has uncontrolled desires, where needs are unlimited and consumption is also frivolous? And what will that society be like where desires, needs and consumption are all controlled?
Boundless Greed In the world, everything has its limits. The first principle of ecology is limitation. More consumers and less supply; limited supply and unlimited desires - how can these two equations go together. Man has so much of wants that these cannot be fulfilled. There is a touching verse in the folklore of Rajasthan:
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