“A boss wants to give this less
an Employee always wants excess!
The whole world want this to timely come!
Tis just your monthly or weekly income!”
Over ninety nine percent of the population of the world look out for this at either the end of the month or the week!
And to think that it was named after something you now simply sprinkle with liberty on your food everyday!
read on!
The world moves because there is a system in place. The majority of the workers in the world depend on this and their whole life revolves around it!
This is the reason why anyone tolerates his or her boss no matter how much he or she dislikes him or her! Then again there can never be a good boss!
Even if that person was once your own friend and may be even a junior, once he or she becomes your boss then he or she is neither your junior nor your friend!
Of course there are bosses who are good but then that is a myth and myths like Unicorn has to be seen to be believed!
The employee wants to work and get paid and maybe sometimes just work the amount which is necessary or which he or she feels is necessary to get his or her due!
Every employee would always feel that he or she deserves more especially when he or she gets to know how much his or her friend makes! One of the major cause of depression is finding out how much your friend or colleague who did not pay for his tea or coffee the other day makes much more than you!
It is like the three idiots phenomenon! You feel sad when your friend does not have a job or loses a job but you feel more sad when he or she is promoted over you!
Of course promotion and rank does not mean a thing if what you get paid is the same or after taxes; even less! That pay slip is the indication of happiness of most employees at the end of the day!
Coming then to the answer!
We have paper money now as a legal tender or a means of buying stuff. In the book Bitcoin standard by Saifedean Ammous, the author says how a big pile of Limestone was kept in the middle of the street! That was the currency!
One day you are the owner then if you buy a something, say a house then there is a transfer of ownership! The Limestone stays there! Only the owner changes! And all this is simply based on only one thing which is finally the only way to transact!
Later on even gold copper and silver were introduced as mode of exchange with benefits and disadvantages of either!
Later on you have the Paper money is your money but controlled by the government so one fine day all the hard cash you have with you can be turned into paper by a simple law of the government!
He proceeds further and explains how the actual reason of world war I was monetary and if not for US support it would have ended then and there!
In fact after the war many countries lost their monetary value though the maximum brunt was felt by the ones who lost the war!
Again finally coming to the answer!
So there was a time when the means of payment was salt! Yes! That powder which you put with disdain on the side of your plate!
A weekly or monthly quota of salt was given as payment to workers!
That payment was called Salarium! Where have you heard that before!? YES! It’s Salary!
Salary comes from the Latin word salarium, which also means “salary” and has the root sal, or “salt.” In ancient times, it specifically meant the amount of money allotted to a soldier to buy salt, which was an expensive but essential commodity!
Now next time you see salt treat it with respect! The cheapest item in your kitchen was someone’s monthly pay!
Most people thus work for salt! Some though work only for their country and country folk! Like Shaheed Udham Singh; do not ever forget about such freedom fighters who avenged one of the most cruel Genocides ever.
Now earn your salt by sleeping on time and going to work on time!
Shubh Ratri!
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