Opportunities for Everyone in the Modern Age

Opportunities for Everyone in the Modern Age and compare their present economic conditions with what they were like in 1947, he would be surprised to see that they had witnessed remarkable progress. I explained that the ancient age was, in economic terms, an age of agriculture and, in political terms, an age of monarchy. As a result, in the old age, power was the monopoly of only a handful of people—in the economic sphere, those who exercised control over agricultural land, and those who controlled the monarch’s throne in the political sphere. However, these monopolies had been shattered in the new age. The modern industrial revolution had removed economic means from the control of landlords and made them available to the general public. The modern age was an age of de-monopolisation. In the same way, the modern ideological revolution based on democracy and freedom had removed political power from the narrow circle of erstwhile royal families and transferred it into the hands of the public at large. In the age of democracy, political power had been reduced to an administration, giving all opportunities and freedom to individuals and non-governmental organisations.