Mind Gym

What do we own?

Recently, my friend RamG visited me at Hyderabad and we had quite a lot of intellectual exchange of ideas and a conversation that cut across communist economic policies to special relativity to puzzling to hindu mythology till the wee hours of the morning. During that exciting discussion, he mentioned that if we plot, the cumulative population on X axis, and cumulative wealth on the Y axis, then in an ideal situation, where the wealth will be equally distributed, it will be a 45 degree line as ilustrated by the red line in the graph below. And where one man owns all the wealth, it will be a straight vertical line as illustrated by the blueline. For a moment, i was wondering what if all of us own everything or none of us own nothing as illustrated by the pink line ??

For example, between ram and me, we both own the same house equally in all respects which may tantamount to the inference that at the same time we both didn’t own nothing. A complex scenario, but shouldn’t the world be this way? Is there anything called ownership? Can we in absolute sense claim ownership to anything at all in this world? Even our soul doesn’t seem to ours. Or is the Us inseperable from soul and hence we don’t even own ourselves?

Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............I better leave it there. The city is rocking with the delicious eyecandy and am on my way. Life is calling me. Wanna join in??