History Repeats itself!!

Greetings,

During our history classes, most of us must have read about Zamindar system, where one person would control lands and lives of so many people and keep them as bonded labour. (Bandhuya Mazdoor in Hindi). Remember how all of us used to abhor that.

I reckon that hisotry is going to repeat itself. All biggies in India Inc are trying to take as much as they can out of Retail Pie. Reliance, Bharti, Future..you name it. Lets see how are they trying to do it.
Step 1 - Source directly from farmers. Reduce procurement cost. Use own inventory and distribution to be cost effective. Pass on margins to consumer.

Step 2 - Produce themselves. Self farming/contract farming. This will improve their margins even more.

Guess what? If this happens; which i believe will happen in 5 years time. Zamindar system will be back again..though in sophisticated manner. The transformation will go full cycle from bonded labour -> labour-> employees -> co-workers-> .......... employees -> labour -> bonded.

Slavery isn't dead. We just stopped recognizing it.

~ Navjot Singh Sohanpal