Those who accept dishonesty as dignified, and adopt it
as their idea, fail to analyze the situation in a thorough enough manner. The
truth is that money simply cannot be earned by dishonest means. Even when we do
acquire some wealth temporarily, it cannot stay and really be ours. Ennobling
livelihood can only be earned through courage, wisdom, discipline, dexterity,
and skillfulness. Earning through dishonest
/ devious means leads to results
that are not only unstable but are also demeaning and dishonesty invariably
leads to public anger, outrage, hate , isolation, and sadness. In practice,
deceit and corruption are sugar coated with a fake layer of honesty for it to
work. Conning does require establishing trust and confidence. If any suspicion
arises, the person being conned is likely to jump out of the trap. Once proven
guilty, the conman loses credibility forever and ends up bearing more eventual
losses than profits. There could be scores of everyday examples where people
who are caught bribing, cheating , evading taxes, doing black marketing, and
illegally hoarding not only get severely punished by the law but they also lose
their social status and prestige. Once their deeds become public, everyone
starts hating them.
