Re: Indian culture at it's best

What you are describing is called a service economy and not any
particular culture per se - In a service economy, everybody is a
service provider and services are available only for a price - they are
withheld if price is not paid. The prices are whatver the market can
bear, which in most cases turns into whatever the payers can bear - the
time and place and importance determine the value of such services. In
a highly advanced and fully developed service economy, no service is
for free. They are not called bribes but fees, commisions,
consulatancy, brokerage etc. Traditional Indian culture is just the
opposite where people are expected to serve each other without
expecting anything in return - so this juxtapositon of service economy
over Indian culture is looked down upon as corruption and fees
exchanged for services are derided as bribes - again such outlook is
from Indian cultual point of view - but from modern economic point of
view, service economy is the highest point of economic development.
Services rendered from free are called ineffeciencies of the system. So
from service economy point of view, classic Indian culture would be
called undeveloped poverty-ridden economy that is rich in resources but
poor in wealth-creation.

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