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Part of democracy is to have equality in freedom, rights to anything we can gain from the work done by our own hands. People who work harder will gain more reward, people who slack off will gain less. That’s the fundamental of equality, and this is what keeps democracy alive. The strong and hardworking one will continue to advance and the weak will be filtered off. But the weak ones are not being denied their chance of getting strong and they can progress at their own pace, eventually being one of the strong ones in the ecosystem. That is how it should work by right.

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But when you take the equality out of the equation and impose a cap on certain variables of it, it will have collateral damage on the balance of the whole ecosystem. Surely you can say because weak ones cannot cope up with the strong ones and the cap is essential to maintain the balance of the ecosystem. But over a long period of such quick-fixes, the weak will tend to rely too much on the advantage they have over the strong ones and eventually, they will still slack off and will gain less.


Advancement of the society in the modern world depends on the level of knowledge that the society possess. When you impose affirmative action into your policy to quick-fix the balance of the ecosystem, you’re bound to be hit by a loss of knowledge from the strong ones. The world is a free place and anyone would leave a place for a better place, that is a fact. At the end of the day, the society’s advancement progress has come to a stagnant level, and most likely going backwards as the loss of knowledge continues to outflow from the ecosystem to other ecosystem. You can only blame yourself for holding up to your affirmative action policy for too long a period that there are so few knowledgeable people left in your society to propel it to an advanced society.


Investors are returns seeker. Whenever investor ventures into a market to do business, the first and foremost thing we do is to evaluate the Political, Environment, Society, Technology, Judiciary, Economy (PESTEL) of a country. Small players would definitely take political factor as a major point to consider. Which foreign investor would want to invest in a country where they have to give up a substantial amount of the ownership of their company to the citizens of the country? Which investor would want to do business in a country where there are so many limitations barring it from doing business with maximum profitability?


This goes the same for local investors, should every competitive edge be given as privilege to others, these investors who do not benefit will simply just pack their bags and leave to seek opportunity elsewhere. It’s already a sad thing for leaving your home country, but it’s a much more sad thing when other country offers something better for the foreign citizens there as compared to first class citizens in the home country.


“You can’t make a weak man strong, by making a strong man weak.” –A. Lincoln


Abraham Lincoln was right, by weakening the strong so as to give pace for the weak, the society will not benefit as a whole. The main radical change which should be done to correct this imbalance in the ecosystem is to educate the various elements of the ecosystem on the proper ways of surviving in the ecosystem. Education system must be revamped and be streamlined to be relevant towards the current landscape. Policies must be amended to be favorable for everyone and bring back equality. The second radical change is to offer very lucrative offers to woo back the lost knowledge which had left the ecosystem. While it ain’t easy, it must be done or the ecosystem will definitely fall back to the Dark Ages.


Equality is meant by giving chance to everyone to be able to seek opportunities with the same freedom and rights, not a cap of limitation because they have the majority of same elements in the ecosystem. It’s saddening when some claim otherwise.