I had a customer sitting in front of a computer crying. She was so upset and distort that she couldn't think of her email password. She kept saying that I just want to print out those bills attached to my email and take them to Telstra, a big Internet provider, and make sure that I don't owe them any money. She never had an ADSL broadband account with Telstra but the bills indicated that she owed them money from two years ago and these debt collectors were chasing over $200 because of the three bills from April 2014. Without doubt, the bills looked like they were from Telstra and anyone would have paid thinking they must have slipped up the payment except that she never had a landline (home phone connection) during that time to be able to get broadband internet and she had moved out out of the given address by that date. So she was suspicious. After my investigation on NSW fair trading department website I found out that it was a scam registered in their list Of scams with many new scams since it was first reported.
It begged the question why do people engage in big scams. Do their employees know that they are employed by the scammer or not?
When this customer went out the door asking this question why have they done this to me, my unplanned response was, "because society values money more than anything else" and thought I my head that this is the price we pay for having money as the highest goal. We believe in appearances. When we see a guy in a suit and a tie we naturally give them more respect. More expensive the clothing is, more respect and professionalism is showered. So those who don't succeed in making money the right way, then try to make it the wrong way because ultimately the goal is to make money, no matter how. Why have we come to this low standard of behaviour?
We take selfies, put on best clothes, buy better cars and show ourselfs to the world on social media. We call it style, then we build a reputation of being a celebrity and when we have enough followers we get paid by companies to market their products. All well and good because money is circulating and the economy is working in this model but we forgot to ask the deeper questions. First of those questions is that we forgot that there is half the population somewhere on this planet that doesn't have a mobile phone to take a selfie and share it on the Internet. We forgot that these half brothers and sisters can't even afford today's meal. They are hungry. They have children with expectations and hopes that parents will bring in food and clothing today or the next day. When we forget them altogether and leave them no chance of success what are they going to try as a next step?
If we focus back on the Internet community since we are familiar with it, we again fail to ask the deeper questions like what is the young chick trying to sell when she creates the Facebook page 'sex sells, money talks and drugs work'? Yes, it's the truth but what is she going to get out of wearing clothes that seem to promote all of the facts she's stated?
Is it not true that everyone wants money and then everyone wants to be famous? Once they become a millionaire, then one in a hundred promises to do some charity and give away a couple of dollar. Isn't it saying in other words that I will first take more than a fair share of the wealth and then I will give a little bit back to show that I am a good person? Why not take a fair share in the first place, so you don't have to do charity? Contentment makes you a King not more money, says Guru Nanak. When you are contented, then you rule the world. When you are not contented, you are a beggar. Begged wants and King gives. They are the only two actions. Who do you beg from and who do you give to? What do you beg for and what do you give? If we could only beg for healthy and happy life for all, society wouldn't be so money hungry. Food wouldn't be thrown into bins instead of putting in people's mouth. Our success would 't be judged based I how many investment properties we own. When we stop that judgement, people would feel safe investing in uplifting someone else instead of buying that next investment property. We won't abandon our parents and later take them to nursing homes, never to visit them again. We would value their love and light around our house. Instead of how much I earn, the focus will be on how I treat others.
Rather than how much I make, the focus will be on what do I sell? Is what I sell, good for people's health and wellbeing or just for my pocket? If we ever focused on that our supermarkets would' the full of sugar and no nutrition. We have taken thought out of the process of making a living and re only focused on making a living somehow. That's what's wrong with us. If by lying to the government would give us a pension or bigger welfare cheque, we take it. On the other hand governments make rules to suit big corporations and save their dollars, increase their profits at the expense of lower pay for millions of people and bad health due to their dodgy products. So who is a scammer? The little guy that got caught or the government and big corporations looting people in the broad daylight? Where is fairness, justice and equality?
We work with our heads not with our hearts. This needs to change. Head keeps us in the survival mode and always says get out of trouble even if it is at the expense of putting the other in trouble. The heart wants win-win situation for everyone and welfare of everyone. Guru Nanak teaches the way of the heart.
It begged the question why do people engage in big scams. Do their employees know that they are employed by the scammer or not?
When this customer went out the door asking this question why have they done this to me, my unplanned response was, "because society values money more than anything else" and thought I my head that this is the price we pay for having money as the highest goal. We believe in appearances. When we see a guy in a suit and a tie we naturally give them more respect. More expensive the clothing is, more respect and professionalism is showered. So those who don't succeed in making money the right way, then try to make it the wrong way because ultimately the goal is to make money, no matter how. Why have we come to this low standard of behaviour?
We take selfies, put on best clothes, buy better cars and show ourselfs to the world on social media. We call it style, then we build a reputation of being a celebrity and when we have enough followers we get paid by companies to market their products. All well and good because money is circulating and the economy is working in this model but we forgot to ask the deeper questions. First of those questions is that we forgot that there is half the population somewhere on this planet that doesn't have a mobile phone to take a selfie and share it on the Internet. We forgot that these half brothers and sisters can't even afford today's meal. They are hungry. They have children with expectations and hopes that parents will bring in food and clothing today or the next day. When we forget them altogether and leave them no chance of success what are they going to try as a next step?
If we focus back on the Internet community since we are familiar with it, we again fail to ask the deeper questions like what is the young chick trying to sell when she creates the Facebook page 'sex sells, money talks and drugs work'? Yes, it's the truth but what is she going to get out of wearing clothes that seem to promote all of the facts she's stated?
Is it not true that everyone wants money and then everyone wants to be famous? Once they become a millionaire, then one in a hundred promises to do some charity and give away a couple of dollar. Isn't it saying in other words that I will first take more than a fair share of the wealth and then I will give a little bit back to show that I am a good person? Why not take a fair share in the first place, so you don't have to do charity? Contentment makes you a King not more money, says Guru Nanak. When you are contented, then you rule the world. When you are not contented, you are a beggar. Begged wants and King gives. They are the only two actions. Who do you beg from and who do you give to? What do you beg for and what do you give? If we could only beg for healthy and happy life for all, society wouldn't be so money hungry. Food wouldn't be thrown into bins instead of putting in people's mouth. Our success would 't be judged based I how many investment properties we own. When we stop that judgement, people would feel safe investing in uplifting someone else instead of buying that next investment property. We won't abandon our parents and later take them to nursing homes, never to visit them again. We would value their love and light around our house. Instead of how much I earn, the focus will be on how I treat others.
Rather than how much I make, the focus will be on what do I sell? Is what I sell, good for people's health and wellbeing or just for my pocket? If we ever focused on that our supermarkets would' the full of sugar and no nutrition. We have taken thought out of the process of making a living and re only focused on making a living somehow. That's what's wrong with us. If by lying to the government would give us a pension or bigger welfare cheque, we take it. On the other hand governments make rules to suit big corporations and save their dollars, increase their profits at the expense of lower pay for millions of people and bad health due to their dodgy products. So who is a scammer? The little guy that got caught or the government and big corporations looting people in the broad daylight? Where is fairness, justice and equality?
We work with our heads not with our hearts. This needs to change. Head keeps us in the survival mode and always says get out of trouble even if it is at the expense of putting the other in trouble. The heart wants win-win situation for everyone and welfare of everyone. Guru Nanak teaches the way of the heart.
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