Economics of gossip

I wonder if anyone has computed the actual Economics of gossip for a large sample size ....spl in an industry like Academics or Art
or Manufacturing ...does gossip have a positive impact in Art as compared to Academics .... or could the study bring about some mega
changes in our perception ....
I know of a few sad case studies where the people gossiped about have lost money and those spreading gossip have actually earned money
....
is the economics of gossip tied to tears too? and is there any correlation to the Mythical term ....Karma ????
hmmm ....wonder who could be approached for Funding for such a project ....

my Mom and I were talking on the phone today and she told me about a family friend ....who is facing very tough times ....

and it took me to my .... questions ....why would karma go and rest on some Innocent from that gossiping family friend's family....
why do people who are very pious and have staunch Belief in the Believing Hindu way of life ....gossip sooooooooo very much ... how
does gossiping and praying get married in a temple ....I used to hear girls in school talk about who wore what and did what at
Sunday church ....during my school days ....
plus my school was very close to the Khoja community mini township...and the Koran class my school friends attended there
had Guides too as part and parcel of Koran class ...the Khojas and Bhoris are a very unique community ... with status of women
being very different in those communities ...however those girls too had a lot of info about other kids ....

all this behaviour was very different for me ..as i lived in a remote part of the Airforce station... as defence civilians
are the dregs of that society ...lol ...
ergo.. I had just one or maybe two other kids in the building I stayed in ...as friends ....no matter the change in neighbours ...
the number of friends did not change as in go up much ...we discussed books and movies and tree climbing and sport ...we had No
one to gossip about
and if we fought ...we would have to play with siblings ...not very great a proposition ...ergo we were alien to gossiping those days ....

and I used to always Think ..... ergo I found that religion and religious places were basically... trading zones for info about
other people ....it is socialising with ...a form of fear ....thrown in for good measure ...

maybe ...For a Select Few ...whose business is Primarily ...getting information about ....other people's lives and business ...

last nov ...when I was at a party for my parent's anniversary ... this family friend walks upto me as she was leaving ...asks
a very openly atheist like me to pray for her and then in that very breathe ...asks me if the lady and gentleman I was sitting
with ...were the unmarried sister and brother who stayed in abc place and blah blah blah about them..... the lady I was
sitting with, is my batchmate from school and an Architect and sooo much more ....

I was so wild with this family friend for doing what she was doing ...she did not get my very obvious expressions either ...
she is a very Naïve country bumpkin kind of lady who loves to gossip and does not know ...when and where to put the brakes ...
no one is mean to her coz she is a meek kind ...I changed the topic asap ...
and I hoped and hoped my friend has not seen the lady put her hand to her mouth and talk to me in a hushed tone in Malayalam ....
for a bit ...till I changed the topic and she spoke in a normal pitch and tone ...I feel when one goes all hush hush with their
hand to their mouth in public ...that is when ...we humans should have a legal right to be our most Physical ...like I would
have loved to whack people who do this hand to the mouth kind of talking ....age and relation and whatever notwithstanding ....
I wanted to be most disrespectful and tick her off about being nasty .... however .....it was not My Party ....
and
normal behaviour in public situations are a freaking drain ...at times ...

I felt so bad for my childhood friends...as how can ..not being married be something to come and publicly gossip ...right
under their noses ...

however ...ever so often when I hear the gossip my mom picks up at the temple ...
and ...it is very irritating ....
today I told my Mom about this incident last Nov and my Dialogue about temple going people and gossiping ....and not
losing energy and focus when there is so much on her plate in terms of problems ....my mom pretended to not understand
the correlation I was making ... or the context or the moral upper hand I was trying to play ....hmmm

I am very mean and highly stingy with my compassion and making the right noises ...when it comes to people ...
who go about their lives ....not knowing ...How Much Harm their gossiping is causing others ....
and
I wonder... where in time... did we as a species ...get hooked to gossip ...

was it greed or idleness or loneliness or some perversion that makes people ....die hard gossips ....

ergo one of the tea planters I Respect Loads is a person i met in Assam...the senior assistant at Digultarang Tea Estate
when I lived there .... a person who Never Ever gossiped ...the minute it started ...he would break up the gathering or
he would get up to leave ....no matter who was speaking what ...this gentleman would up and leave ...
and ... that made him the Rarest of Rare Planters ....

gossiping is a plague that infects close communities...spl in small townships .... and estates ....
and offices and ...and ...and ...and ...