MEN OF COMMERCE


  By Tajamul

MEN OF COMMERCE - Page 3 of 3

The universal desire to build, to belong to an empire, to conquer neighborhood and to become the world's leading economic power have all contributed towards the achievement of Japanese goal of maximizing the market share.Governmental influences, forced occupations and tyrannical rule by outsiders for centuries, curfew enforcements and army crackdowns, frequent road blockages (natural) and economic blockades (man made) and the resultant situations of uncertainty on the other hand have all contributed towards the (coinage of) goal of profit maximization (and raking up heaps by way of hoarding and black-marketing) into Kashmiris without much consideration for moral values/ethics.

As happened in several niche products and services in the valley---handicrafts, tourism, fruits, timber, skilled, semiskilled and unskilled labour and so on so forth in different service sectors--- the Kashmiri businessmen have since lost to the competitors strategy of forcing the ROI below the hurdle rates with their aggressive pricing. We are not able to protect our niche market on the analogy of Italy and Germany, the world's largest textile exporters. The duo keeps on operating in market niches in which they experience relatively little competition from low wage producers. These are nich
es where design, quality, responsiveness from fashion and rapid adjustments are important. The Italians developed close collaborations with well known designers who produced signature collections for ready made production.

We have poverty because we do not want to do things that will eliminate poverty. We have high unemployment rates because we do not want to do things that would eliminate higher unemployment rates. To become a little economic dragon (such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan) we must organize ourselves to compete, but must also have a place where market access relatively easy—'a market of first resort'. Historically dynamic societies, stagnant human societies that have become extinct can be all found. The dynamic living ones are those that have vision; and built upon that vision they manage to keep the tensions of wealth creation in balance. As advanced economies are honeycombed with millions of social inventors, innovators, organizational risk takers, dreamers and practical men and women, it is only the better education with access to more knowledge, armed with the most powerful knowledge tools and skills known to humankind and of course an environment free of political and physical uncertainties shall provide a chance for us Kashmiris to invent better tomorrow and to be remembered as builders and not the consumers/profiteers/hoarders.

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