A dinosaur 🦖 in the making.
You’re an engineer.
Recently joined an IT company with a ₹4–5 lakh CTC.
After one year, you take a bike loan and start paying a ₹9,000 EMI.
Another ₹3,000 goes into online food orders from Swiggy and Zomato.
Most evenings disappear into YouTube, JioHotstar, scrolling, and endless consumption.
Now look at the other side.
The maid working in your house earns ₹4,000 from each home and works in 5 houses — ₹20,000 a month.
Her son works as a Swiggy delivery partner earning another ₹20,000.
Her husband drives an auto-rickshaw and brings home around ₹30,000.
No fancy degrees.
No education loan burden.
No lifestyle EMI pressure.
Your household income: ₹30,000.
Their household income: ₹70,000.
But leave the numbers aside for a moment.
Every rupee you spend as a consumer becomes someone else’s income.
Your food delivery pays the delivery boy.
Your mobile recharge enriches telecom giants.
Your streaming subscriptions feed billion-dollar businesses.
One class creates wealth, takes risks, builds assets, and compounds value.
Another class rises steadily through collective family effort and hard work.
And you?
Trapped in consumption, lifestyle inflation, and the illusion of status.
Spending to impress, while slowly losing financial strength, relevance, and freedom.