"Nobody wants to work in the villages now, you know. All they want is to laze around because they don't have to struggle to make a living anymore! They get money easily anyway...". I hear this quite often these days. Mostly from people with landowning relatives back home with a shortage of personnel in recent times or people who were used to getting waited on by these 'lazy' villagers some years ago. The easy money is a reference to the MGNREGA(Rural Employment Guarantee) scheme, which has a poor implementation record to begin with. I listen to such conversation incredulously. First, if MGNREGA, which is 100 days of minimum work, is making them so content with their financial situation, how bad must it have been before? Are they to live such lives forever, just surviving and subservient? And also, I guess we should all learn the secret to their perceived happy, lazy and contented lives! I mean, here I am, much better off than them financially and struggling with juggling my career and home but no nearer to hanging my boots than I was last year. So many insecurities, so many aspirations...
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