Are We All Addicts? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: An upper limit to salary? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Ropar (2022)

Transcript

00:00See, think of a really mad man.

00:02Think of the kind of price he is prepared to pay for narcotic substances.

00:08Just for a little cocaine, he is ready to pay a fortune.

00:11That's what.

00:12When somebody pays a lakh rupees for a few grams of cocaine,

00:16or even lesser than that, then you say,

00:18Oh, this person is mad. He is an addict, right?

00:20Now, extend this example.

00:22Is that not what all of us are doing on Amazon,

00:26in our shopping malls, everywhere?

00:28Now, cocaine is blatantly obvious.

00:31It's declared as something harmful.

00:34So, it does not require much mental effort

00:37to see that this person is valuing the wrong thing.

00:40He is spending money at a false place.

00:42But think of what is happening, as I said,

00:44on the online portals and in shopping malls.

00:46Where is our money going?

00:48What are we doing with our money?

00:49Money is chasing all the wrong kind of things that do us no good.

00:54Why?

00:55Because we are living in a deluded, dreaming, dim-witted society.

00:59That's what needs to change.