Chain

“I would like to call on to this stage a new ‘Diamond. He was selling groceries earlier but now earns ten lakh rupees a month. Claps!...” People with various titles were called on to the stage and all of them were earning lakhs of rupees per month, according to the announcer. Pankaj had come to this seminar on his friend’s insistence.

“All you had to do is to enroll three members who in turn would enroll another three and so on. As the chain of people grows, the income would also grow. All that you needed is a small investment of Rupees five thousand a month and then sky is the limit for you.”

Pankaj’s dreams took wings. He prepared a list of his friends and relatives. All of his time was now spent in going to someone’s house, repeating what was shown in the video and trying to get them enrolled. He toiled hard and somehow enrolled his sister, a good friend and a colleague as the three members. He got his relatives and other friends enrolled to be their members. But he could never get his wife’s brother to join the scheme. Pankaj was angry at him and complained to his wife many times.

His initial earnings were in thousands but the chain did not grow after some time. Because he could not concentrate on his family business, he lost lakhs of rupees. He went to his friends and colleagues to ask for help but they all started avoiding him. He had done the mistake of measuring valuable relations in rupees. He was under a lot of stress and did not know what to do.

One day, he got a call from Vivek “Brother-in-Law, I have some excess money. You can take it to keep your business alive.” Pankaj was happy that there was at least one relation that got saved from his chain of greed.