EXPLOITATION – THE ART

By:

Rohit Krishnan

Institute Of Management and Research

Duhai, Gazhiabad

 

Exploitation – an art? It might sound bizarre and improper to join words of such different genres together and that too for a title, but as disturbing as it may sound, it is true as the sky above and the earth below. In the competitive world today, where kin murders kin and uses the corpse for a stepping stone into his personal success and where a son stabs his pater (Greek) to inherit wealth and power, the “fire to conquer” bursts inside everyone and it burns their own conscience and souls; this very fire becomes the clay for the sculpture of exploitation.

Exploitation no longer remains a word on the mention of which, a picture of a poor underpaid child or a women, or of a cruelly treated worker would come into every mind. It has grown in meaning with the growing world and its standards. To do justice to its true face today, the youth, even those who have a financially and socially sound life have to be considered and that too, above everything at least in the present scenario.

Here arises a question: How are the people who are financially and socially sound victims of exploitation? After all, money and respect together is what every man lives for. The answer to this is elementary; they are mentally exploited out of their talents and robbed of their educational qualifications’ ability which could otherwise have provided them with a better life or perhaps a more peaceful existence.

Exploitation can be explained in three very simple yet beautifully designed ways. Every parent who sees the trend of the development of the world can very easily guess that the “brightest to be” career in future, is in the sector of “Information Technology” and naturally they spend their hard earned money to get their child enrolled into respective institutions. The fire to conquer is thus, forced into their fragile minds very early. These kids live every moment of their educational period and strive for air during the rat race for the completion of B.Tech., BCA and other similar disciplines and finally step out into the mainstream, completely under the bliss of ignorance of what to expect.

Begins “STEP ONE”, once outside searching for their once dreamt-for ambitions, they realize that the world needs little of their kind, for they have no experience or specializations, or so they are made to believe. All organizations they confront, give them the very same story and select a very few of them to join the firm (the selected candidates being members of the creamy layer that is). All others are rejected and are forced into forgetting their hard work in their respective fields and join other fields with which they have no familiarity.

For “STEP TWO”, the selected candidates of the so called cream layer who were recruited are primarily given a probation period which is also the training period in which they are given specific training to meet the organizational needs for about two – six months (differs company-wise) with only one fourth or maximum half the promised pay. In this trial period, these freshers are given three times the normal work load and are made to believe that what education they have acquired till date holds no relevance as far the organization is concerned which in turn creates agony and insecurity. This insecurity pushes them to feel weak and work in the organizations for whatever they seem willing to pay. Now, the ones who were discarded earlier from these companies are in a more pitiful condition (i.e.) since they work in a field with which they have little or no familiarity, they become the underdogs and are obviously, made to work for peanuts, although, they are also given the same training as everyone else making them as capable as anyone there is.

In the final “STEP THREE”, this is just the finishing touch to the masterpiece. Here, the once led by the “fire to conquer”, youth, have now been robbed of their talents and their educational qualifications have now been brutally raped by the treachery of the employers and are finally mentally burned in the very fire which they once took as illumination for their souls.

For the final question: How can all this be identified as exploitation? The answer to this is again elementary; the organizations know what they are doing. A better explanations lies in the policy of the great Chanakya where he says:

“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”

This is exactly what the organizations do, they pretend like it is the men who require the organizational support when it’s actually a mutual need. They scare people into working loyally for them and make them feel grateful for something that is rightfully theirs. The agonizing environment made for a fresher by the organization veterans makes the former hopeless and insecure. This insecurity is what the companies use as a bridle. To run an organization is more like a war today and thus are used war tactics the first one being:

“An army marches on its stomach”

-Napoleon Bonaparte

The only way out of this ambush is to have firm belief in oneself and in the education for which a huge part of life is mortgaged for it is rightly said:

“If you can stand for what you truly believe in, you can change the world.”