Commentary
Consumers aren’t a mere slice of society; they aren’t some separable category from anyone else. Anyone who buys goods and services is a consumer. In a modern economy, a consumer can buy goods and services with help of a tool called money.
Undoubtedly, money is a very important tool, and it is money that assures a basic consumer right. Even producers and sellers are consumers in their day-to-day lives. Importantly, everybody is a consumer. Therefore, more importance should be put on consumers, as they include everyone.
It’s not that workers are unimportant, and that we shouldn’t care about them. For example, in a country with a huge youth population like India, the worker–population ratio is around 38.2 percent, according to the 2019–20 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data. This is the percentage of workers in the Indian population. So, it is really important that workers in a nation are allowed the opportunity to achieve a good standard of living. But to assure them a good life, we need to give workers liberty….
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