Recently read this interesting article on Shobha Warrier's blog at http://notanobserver.rediffiland.com "Of Cabbages and Men" about how the growth of organized retail sector in India is a double edged sword - it benefits some and kills some.
I say that, that is how capitalism works. It lets people who wants to grow, grow more otherwise someone else will grow more than you and overtake you.
Had Pandian, the vegetable seller, who was doing well, been a growth oriented person, he would have thought of setting up a bigger shop instead of letting himself be confined to the street where he started his life as a business man. This would have made him grow big and make his life more stable. Who knows if would have grown so big that Reliance would have felt threatened by him. Didn't Dhirubhai himself had the same humble beginnings as Pandian. Maybe he would have created many more Geethas and much earlier.
It is a dog-eat-dog world and one has to be constantly on one's toes and ensure that one is not eaten up someone at the back.
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