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Sometimes doing something good for the society becomes many times greater over personal satisfaction or 💰 money:

 - This is the story of a prestigious company and a good hearted engineer save millions of lives with very humble gesture of putting society first and giving up their personal satisfaction and prestige. Read the story: *In 1959, a Swedish engineer at Volvo patented what would become one of the greatest inventions of all time.* _Volvo stood to make billions_ *But after a meeting with Volvo's President, he decided to give it away for free - and it changed the world* Here’s how that meeting went: After receiving his mechanical engineering degree from a University in his hometown of Härnösand, Sweden, Nils Bohlin joined aircraft maker Saab to work on ejector seats. For 16 years, he continued to focus on safety and was eventually designing complete pilot rescue systems. Nils was anchored to the idea of safety above all else, and brought this same mentality to a welcoming team at Volvo. There, he focused his attention on all the driver and passenger safety systems, starting with seatbelt

When people come to the cities and settle, we see only one side of the coin:

 - Today worldwide the urban centres are becoming too large, complex and complicated. People are finding it difficult to come up with solutions with regards to city management. Currently, it was in the news that most of the free public spaces in Bangalore city will be made into paid parking spaces. These efforts are one of the measures to encourage public transport. In this proposal there is an effort to issue the parking passes, also monthly passes to the owners of the cars which they can buy and use to park cars beside designated public roads. This is just a proposal which was published in the newspaper recently. This is one example of how things are becoming complex in the cities.  In another example, before few years in Delhi, it was in the news where the 'even and odd car number' system was introduced. Even after introducing the system, it was also not as effective as expected. Delhi also considered being one of the most polluted cities in the world. New Delhi was the worl