Acharya Prashant questions the modern definition of progress and development, asking if it is truly happening. He explains that a businessman who manufactures cars must not only produce the vehicle but also create a mindset in people that buying a car is a sign of progress. This idea, that progress is about acquiring things like cars, air conditioners, big houses, and foreign trips, has been instilled in us by those who want to sell these items. He criticizes people for not using their consciousness to question this definition and ask what progress truly means or what is to be achieved through it. The speaker argues that the entire world has become a victim of a few greedy and mad individuals who control the media and governments. He describes a system where a greedy man, devoid of love and joy, manufactures cars. To do this, he needs engineers, leading to the opening of engineering colleges. Poor farmers sell their land to educate their children, who then become servants to this businessman, producing more cars and computers. This entire cycle is mistakenly called "progress." He points out that 98% of the world's wealth is in the hands of less than 1% of the people, and these are the very individuals who have filled our minds with this false idea of progress. Acharya Prashant highlights the absurdity of this situation, noting how people have lost their peace and happiness chasing this notion. He gives examples of people celebrating acquiring new things as progress, blindly following fashion trends, and feeling proud of their consumerism. He urges people to change their hearts, not their wardrobes. He offers a stark example of a hospital advertising "world-class cancer care," which people see as progress, without realizing that cancer is a modern disease and that their so-called progress is itself the cause of cancer. He observes that people leave their homes and villages for this "progress," only to find polluted air, water, and soil in the cities, asking if they have come there to die. He points out the hypocrisy in society, where behaviors that would be condemned elsewhere are considered respectable in certain contexts, like weddings. He concludes that this is a clever system created by businessmen to keep people from thinking for themselves, making them slaves who ironically look up to their exploiters as ideals.