Soori Kaimaadi was a petty pickpocket and got nabbed a few times and beaten up and not once was the loot more than a few hundred rupees. At great personal risk he continued to be a petty thief and marvelled at the incredible wealth there was available for looting and admired the courage of the politicians who looted so much more.
One particularly hungry morning he got caught by a particularly violent crowd who started thrashing him, and it dawned on him that he could try something totally new. He shouted out, "Stop that is enough." And he looked up hiding his fear and said shamelessly, "This is not all that I have looted, I have looted and stashed away more than a hundred crore rupees."
The crowd gasped, they had a knew respect for him, he was now a thief in the big league, a scamster! They promptly stepped aside for him to move ahead. As always when the size of robbery becomes big we have an inbuilt reverence for numbers that goes above our normal everyday usage. We forget that both are nothing more than thieves, the only difference is the amount, we allow it to happen and then there is no stopping after that...
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