"Love Jihad", the conspiracy theory sweeping India

Started by The Larch, December 04, 2020, 08:50:57 PM

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grumbler

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February 15, 2021, 04:12:01 PM
India's existing system (the one being modified) was designed to keep people on the land and slow the growth of urban slums.  It created the very conditions that politicians now deplore, with artificial high prices and massive subsidies.  It's not affordable, but the conditions it created were quite deliberate, and it can't just be turned off because its inconvenient for politicians that want to shift spending to benefit the rich people who own the politicians.

There's no easy solution, but there have to be better ones.

The Green Revolution was impressive but short-sighted because it locked in policies that could not possibly stay relevant in changing conditions.  India has too many farmers because it chose to keep people in farming.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Jacob

#46
February 16, 2021, 01:51:44 PM
Yeah when you pull away the economic foundation for a large section of the population, you're going to see some social instability as a result.

Maybe the theory is a Thatcher-like "pull of the bandage quick and get it over with"....
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