Lifetime Savings for One = A Gadget for Another

My maid, Lata, loooooooves, i mean LOVES, to talk... so in her usual chatter she told me that she's been working at this one lady's house for the past 10 - 15 years. A couple of years ago, that lady opened up a bank account for Lata and takes about Rs. 100 from her salary every month and automatically puts it in the bank account. So now Lata has savings worth Rs. 15,000. I could tell that Lata was feeling very proud while telling me that.

A couple of weeks later I bought myself a Blackberry for over Rs. 17,000. It just struck me that her life times savings is less than one transaction that I just made.