In this episode, Taj explores how we replace our childhood dreams and noble aspirations for the rat race or cow’s life as cogs in the machine content to organize our lives around money. This leads to a dehumanized view of the self and others which allows for inequality, barbaric behavior and allows for Human Dignity to come under assault. Taj recalls the story of “Bengal,” a maid who was humiliated and physically assaulted by a wealthy land-lord, left with little to no recourse for justice. Taj takes us through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Medina Constitution as journeys emblematic of humanity’s desire for a dignified existence. Taj ponders whether the free enterprise of today masquerades as fiefdoms of old. He ponders if the free bosses of new have replaced the lords of old. Taj reflects on the crushing poverty that exists amidst the soaring prosperity in the world’s great super power and talks about how the value assigned to the average worker has slowly diminished over the past 40 years. Taj gleans insights from Bangladesh’s War of Liberation in 1971 and Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March in British India. Taj contemplates the phenomenon where people seem to tolerate injustice better when the person exacting the oppression looks more like us than different. To this end he compares “the white sahibs” of British India to “the brown sahibs” of liberated India.