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Monday blues.

People tend to associate monday blues with "Oh no, another 5 days of misery", then proceed to munch on potato chips and wash it down with cheap beers on friday night. This tradeoff between "work" and "leisure", is such a beautiful yet embarassing slideshow of reality that lower middle class average joes experience for thirty-forty years. Every single week. Here or there. However, this tradeoff is not a one to one, if you think. More work doesn’t automatically imply more leisure, no. More(And better) work implies "better" leisure. Now how "better" the leisure is, depends on how people define leisure altogether. It's subjective. Some may find it in buying a lamborghini, some may find it in arranging their dream trip, or some may find pleasure in just flexing the extra money earned from working more. The rule, at the depth of it all, is simple. More time you spend doom scrolling on reels consuming useless brainrot, the less time you'll get for work. However, the less work you'll do, the less leisure you'll get in future. It's kind of funny how this applies to pretty much every animal, including human. Humans tried hard, very hard, to soften the "Survival of the fittest" principle by building a society with mutual coexistence; and yet, in its subtlety, "Survival of the fittest" prevails. One may say, however, that building a society was the only way humans would've survived, given the unfair endowment of physical capabilities we're cursed(blessed) with. That's a topic I'm not interested in writing about, at least not today. 

Anyways. 

Even in today's date(especially in today's date), with a staggeringly large population and limited resources in India, the competition is sky-high. Lack of proper education still prevails, women are far behind men. And both of these issues, create an income gap. A gap between the educated and uneducated, and a gap between men and women, in the overall view. The fact that women are not earning as much as men is not as concerning as the fact that women are not discouraged to work, more precisely, oppressed. In a growing economy like ours, this creates a frustratingly huge wastage of labour, which in turn slows down the rate of development. All of this stems from an archaic, patriarchal mentality that is ingrained in the culture of the Indian subcontinent. However, it is changing, even if slowly so. The sooner the misogyny vanishes, the better will it be for the people. 

In the next 5-6 years, India will experience its peak of demographic dividend. Which means, most of the old, dependant people who are alive now, will be dead by then; and most of the young(also dependant right now) people will be working. Meaning, the majority of the country will be active workers. If exploited successfully, well, this can be revolutionary. Millions of people will be brought over the poverty line, development will flourish, India can finally overcome the title of a "third world country". However, need for increased female labour participation will be the most necessary.

In conclusion, monday blues are not just monday blues. Those are hours of work just so you can drink an extra pint of beer.

Cheers.