Acharya Prashant explains that evil is not a single, huge monster, but rather an aggregation of small and helpless things that gather in the millions to take the shape of a huge creature. He illustrates this by stating that while one lost, senseless, and directionless person is pitiable, an entire institution offering MBA degrees, full of such people, becomes an attractive destination rather than something to be pitied. To further clarify, he uses an analogy: if one person wants socks with a thousand holes, they would be declared a lunatic. However, if a million people want such socks, governments would create policies to establish an entire industry catering to this large market. The speaker asserts that evil lies in the great number of small people. He points out that the questioner's point seems obviously stupid because they are alone. If they were part of a graduating MBA batch from a premier institution, they would have shouted the speaker out of the room. He predicts that in two years, the same students would be part of a solemn occasion, a batch of 200 graduating MBAs eagerly presenting their credentials to a "stupid HR person" from a marketing company or ad agency. The speaker concludes that on its own, stupidity is so feeble it can be easily crushed. Because it is feeble, stupidity knows it must gather in numbers. It forms huge organizations and colonies where all the stupid ones can stick together, and then they become very difficult to tackle.
