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How are Indians not terrified of growing old in India?
There is no social security, healthcare has been sold off to the private sector & insurance for the elderly is absurdly expensive. How do you not have sleepless nights about the future given how messed up things already are?
Wealthy Indians are so used to exploiting the working class/oppressed castes every day, that thinking of hard working people as fellow humans is beyond them. They take this attitude with them when they travel abroad.
Everything in this video explains why India is the way it is.
High caste 🇮🇳 youtuber in 🇨🇳
※Ask for a window seat in a commanding tone
※Forcibly boarded old lady's scooter without consent & asked her to travel in opposite direction.
※Forcibly stoped a moving bus, took bus without coin (twice),& ask driver to stop at a non-station place.
A lot of Indians hold delusional opinions about China & it's deeply embarrassing. China is out-competing most developed nations in every field. They literally have their own space station! We, on the other hand, are 111th on the Hunger Index. It's time to reflect & focus inwards.
India is probably the only country in the world where the working classes are being told, through disinformation & propaganda, that wealth redistribution, amidst the shocking income inequality, is against their class interests.
What a bizarre feudal oligarchical society this is.
Why are billionaires in our parliament? What do they have in common with working class people? How on earth are they going to help frame laws which benefit the marginalised (and not themselves)?
No wonder everything in this country is falling apart. It's all a big joke, on us.
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There's something inherently beautiful and uncynically inspiring about working class people being able to enjoy public infrastructure of the highest quality, while asserting their rights as equal stakeholders in the prosperity of a nation.
This is a country which ranks 111th on the Global Hunger Index (lower than the heavily sanctioned North Korea) and where the vast majority of people cannot afford a healthy diet.
What an extraordinary failure of governance!
In the dystopian hellscape that India has become, oligarchs flashing their ill-gotten wealth and state-subsidised lifestyle, is somehow marketed as virtue to an emaciated peasantry stunned by the decadence of its ruling class.
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This is such a bizarre sight for an Indian. You won't see this many women participating in any kind of recreational activity in our public spaces.
The square dancing culture in China speaks volumes about safety of women in general and the quality of public spaces in the country.
Indians from every strata of society need to watch videos of how the rest of the world lives. Watch videos of any random Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian or Vietnamese city and compare their realities to how we live. Only then will we realise how consistently we have been failed.
India has some of the cheapest labour in the world. Why then isn't manufacturing booming in this country? The reason is that manufacturing needs more than just cheap labour.
Workers rights are critical. They allow workers to live better lives and become better at their job.
Over 1,000 Samsung workers in Chennai, India, have been on strike for four weeks, making it India’s biggest strike in recent years. The protests have disrupted production at the plant, which contributed to a fifth of Samsung’s $12 billion revenue in India for 2022-23.
"My parents came to this country 40 years ago with no money"
When will oppressor-caste Indians stop lying? If they didn't have money who bought them the flight tickets? Barely 1% Indians to this day have travelled abroad.
Your parents weren't just rich, they were super rich.
I’m a businessman, not a politician. My parents came to this country 40 years ago with no money, and I’ve gone on to found multibillion dollar companies. I did it while getting married to my wife Apoorva and raising our two sons. That’s the American Dream. For a long time, we
Wealthy Indians, from dominant castes, are used to talking with the authorities in this aggressive manner and getting their way. That's how caste/class privilege works in the country.
It's terrible that they're bringing this horrid culture with them when they travel abroad.
Indians were caught throwing thrash on the streets in Japan. After they’re confronted by the police they are seen littering the streets and getting aggressive further infuriating the police
Most privileged Indians fundamentally despise ideas of equality and social justice. The tweet may be about lounge access but it is reflective of a bigger malaise.
Someone from a more prosperous country would wonder why this is a significant photo.
The reason is that kids are finally being allowed eggs in school meals every day. Such is the scale of poverty and the state of politics in our country.
Shenzhen? India's most developed cities can't catch up with even the poorest Chinese city.
We should stop kidding ourselves. Our citizens are using donkey routes to flee to the US. Most of our citizens can't afford a healthy diet. Our GDP per capita is worse than Bangladesh.
I live in Gurgaon, and I spent the last week in Shenzhen. Here are some of my observations from the city and their implications for India. It would be accurate to say that we've missed many marks, and catching up with China in general, and its cities in particular, is not going
As the rest of Asia focuses on affordable public transport, India chooses to do the opposite and focus exclusively on developing transportation options and infrastructure for the wealthy.
A country of, for and by the rich.
Students in the US are protesting a genocide that their government is complicit in, right at the heart of the imperial core.
In India, these students are protesting a wealth and inheritance tax for the privileged.
The Indian education system is rotten and broken beyond repair.
PHOTOS | A group of students held protest outside Congress headquarters in Delhi against the party's alleged idea of wealth and inheritance tax.
(Source: Third Party)
The Indian working class is so invisible & disadvantaged in public life (a result of few formal jobs, unemployment & poverty), that it has no clue about just how wealthy the top 1% is.
The obscene wealth of the rich, in a country as poor as India, is nothing short of disgusting.
This is going to be a brutal summer. The worst sufferers will be the poor working classes, including the homeless (whose numbers we don't know because the census is delayed), who can't afford to buy air conditioners.
Again, dystopian capitalism has found its true home in India.
Not at all sympathetic to this. The wealthy have denigrated welfare schemes for so long, the education system is now in a state of ruin. When the chickens have finally come home to roost, you want the state to intervene. This is your favourite free market economics. Deal with it.
India's unemployment crisis is so appalling that people are moving *back* to agriculture. A rotten oligarchy & a corrupt ruling class are well on their way to make every working class Indian a sharecropper & bonded labourer, burdened with generational debt.
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Indians demand more accountability from foreign governments than their own.
Why can't your own country fulfil your need for a good education and availability of well-paying jobs?
If you can't ask these questions to your own government, is it right for you ask them to others'?
International students speak on their disappointment in Canada saying Trudeau is exploiting lower class Canadians like a dictator.
“Trudeau is the next Kim Jong Un,” “Canada is going to be the next North Korea in a few years”
India in emojis:
Education system - 💀
Healthcare system - 💀
Unemployment - 😭
Social security - 😭
Affordable housing - 😭
Oligarchs - 🤑🤑🤑🕺💃
Ruling class - 😎💵✈️🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺🖕
India is abysmally poor and most people have little to no social security. The entire country is full of stories like these.
A self-centred ruling class has ensured that the poor are kept marginalised through pro-rich, anti-welfare policies which further magnify the income gap.
What few clowns call a freebie is a lifeline for mothers like her.
Her son died and during his cremation she says "I will lead my life with the 2000 rs from the government"
Stop making fun of welfare programs.
The kind of high quality public infrastructure, like extensive high speed railway connectivity across the country, that the Chinese people now have access to, is both uplifting as a citizen of the Global South and depressing as an Indian.
No wonder AliExpress is banned in India. Instead our oligarchs import the same products from China & sell them to us at elevated prices with a stamp of nationalism.
Indian billionaire oligarchs won't survive a day in the free market, without state sponsored subsidies & freebies.
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Recently Koreans have discovered the prices of the same products sold on local Korean shopping platforms are several times higher than buying directly from China on Aliexpress/Temu. A kitchen utensil that costs only 1300 KRW in🇨🇳is being sold for over 10k KRW in🇰🇷.
People who claim that India has the best healthcare system, because they can visit a specialist at will:
1. Don't know how healthcare systems are supposed to work
2. Have never been hospitalised
3. Are *very* wealthy, compared to the average Indian
800 million Indians get subsidised food from the government. Barely 10% of the population earn enough to pay any income tax.
The audacity to say something so incredibly racist when Indians are already one of the largest groups of illegal immigrants in the US:
What this shows you is that you can be a wealthy traveller & still be a fool.
China is a post-revolution democracy. India is a feudal society burdened by modern-day lords pretending to be oligarchs. This vlogger should enroll himself in that school to learn this very difference.
Nirajan Sharma, a YouTube Vlogger was stunned while documenting a Chinese govt.'s primary school.
He marveled at the school's impeccable infrastructure, cleanliness & education system.
He highlighted how India's teacher recruitment often prioritizes reservations over merit.
Helping my parents renew their health insurance makes me realise just how absurdly expensive it all is.
India isn't just terrible for the elderly, it's actively hostile to them. I'm scared of growing old here. If you're not among the tiny minority of super-wealthy, good luck.
This is what happens when a country's ruling class has no stake in its education system.
The wealthy have sent their kids abroad. The rest, however, are left to endure a trauma-inducing horror-show of an examination system that exists because an actual education system doesn't.
i think NTA is one of the worst things that has happened to the indian education system. today was NTA's first attempt at organizing the NET examination offline, and everything was so poorly managed at the center that it had us in a panic before even entering the exam hall
It's always the entitled, privileged, wealthy who complain about not being able to talk to others in Hindi while in the South.
The working classes/migrant workers are perfectly happy absorbing the local culture and making it their own. It's so incredibly beautiful to witness.
Chris is exceptionally engaging as a speaker and it was a pleasure to watch the video.
At around 1:05:30, he acknowledges how important luck is in life and how 95% of what one does is luck because one doesn't choose where or when one is born.
Truer words have rarely been said.
Taking part in a live interview today at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan!
It’s kicking off at 3pm (in 20mins) - come along and watch me make a fool of myself.
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@tamarasharf
Great question!
Coronavirus is a broad group of viruses having a particular shape (crown like, hence the name "corona") when viewed under electron microscope. SARS-CoV-2 (or coronavirus) is only a sub type of the broad group of coronaviruses.
The biggest con job the wealthy in India ever pulled, was forcing nationalism down the throats of the masses, and convincing them that it's the only way forward, while themselves enjoying the fruits of currency depreciation and cheap labour.
The distress among India's elites at the mere mention of an inheritance tax, is a sight to behold.
The bourgeoisie is so used to being pampered by the state, at the expense of the working class, that even the most milquetoast of policies advancing social justice rattles them.
I just got the Nothing Phone 1. The biggest compliment I can give to the phone is that it feels like a OnePlus from 4 years back. The software is so well optimised. Feels like a very premium phone without the premium pricing.
I'm genuinely impressed with it
@getpeid
@nothing
This is why India missed the manufacturing boat.
Our (famously incompetent) policymakers thought that companies would make a beeline for India simply because of the low labour cost, ignoring the state's historical disinterest in empowering the population. How wrong they were!
India's filth is a result of the caste system (untouchability), widespread poverty, unemployment and income inequality.
Indians who litter know that a miserably poor, exploited, underpaid person from the oppressed castes will be deployed to clear the trash later. So, why bother?
I used to believe that India was filthy cos we were poor. As I got exposure to the developing world, I realised this is probably just an Indian thing. No where else, with the exception of Bangladesh, have I seen as filthy public spaces. "Not MY job" is the only explanation.
No wonder India is full of malnourished kids. We simply won't let them have any proteins. This is the oppression of the bigoted minority of dominant castes who force an overwhelmingly vegetarian diet on all kids.
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Anyone associated with any coaching class is a businessman. Coaching classes have never been about teaching or learning.
These have been allowed to crop up because the state has completely failed in its duty to provide adequate opportunities in education and jobs to all.
Uncle, maybe it's time for you to realise that your "Western friends, NRIs" are as anti-labour as you.
You run a sweatshop and your business exists because Indians are seen as nothing more than cheap labour. Don't take the high ground on this.
The goal of every Indian businessman is to exploit their workers, cheat, evade taxes & make enough so that the next generation can emigrate to the West.
India has managed to create a lowest-trust society where nobody trusts anyone else — capitalism with casteist characteristics.
Back from another China trip. 6 days - 5 cities - 8 factories. Like always, China overwhelms & scares you with its speed & scale. One goal for the trip was to learn how do we replicate same thing in India. We went to factories that have seen exponential growth in last 5 years.
@BrownGB0410
Exactly. This kind of behaviour is so normalised in India, it's weird that these people think they can get away with it in other countries too.
Also, there's a way of talking to strangers. I know she's doing this for the attention & views (again, unemployment), but it's so rude!
This is what an underfunded public transportation system and an underfunded healthcare system looks like.
A day after the biggest railway accident in decades, this is how the list of those being treated is released. How on earth is one expected to find one's loved ones this way?
India risks going through de-industrialisation even before it has had a chance to industrialise first, lift all its people from poverty & provide them a decent standard of living. A helpless citizenry is left to its fate, as the ruling class is allowed to run amok & have its way.
Let me correct this.
India — dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, caste system, corrupt ruling class with wealth in tax havens abroad & having no stake in the country
China — post-revolution society, dictatorship of the proletariat, aspiring socialist state with socialist judiciary
How many more years does India need to become as developed as China?
This is what a Tier 4 city looks like in China 🇨🇳
India 🇮🇳: Democracy, Freebies, Reservations
Dr. Ambedkar was born on 14 April, 1891. On this Bhim Jayanti, read "Annihilation of Caste". If you have, do go through it again. If you haven't, read it today.
Nothing educates you more about Dr. Ambedkar's views than reading his own words.
Educate, agitate, organise!
Embarrassing doesn't even begin to describe this. We can't feed our own people, can't provide jobs to them, can't provide affordable housing to them. People are so desperate here, they're ready to go to literal war zones to survive.
Forget China. We have enough problems at home.
I have never interacted with the liver doctor. Mine is a very small account anyway, but I have retweeted him in the past. Like many, I unfollowed him today too.
One of the reasons students from oppressed castes face discrimination in institutions of higher education (1/5)
The entire South Asia has been running on autopilot since the British left and handed it all over to the bourgeoisie here.
Since then, the most corrupt people have been playing musical chairs to hold on to power, while the working class continues to live in Sub-Saharan poverty.
What a terrible tragedy! 19 year olds should be in universities pursuing their passions & not delivering groceries to entitled rich people.
This highlights the dangerous lack of social security in India. Individual states can only do so much in a country ruled by the oligarchs.
A 19-year-old food delivery executive died by suicide at his house in Kolathur area her. In his suicide note, he said he was dejected as a woman customer scolded him for being late when he went to deliver groceries.
Details here 🔗
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@136Division
Now you know why India never had a revolution. Even if you ignore class, caste in itself, is too strong a tool of oppression.
While the Indian constitution guarantees equal rights, Indian society is fundamentally devoid of egalitarian values that the Chinese society is built on.
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I distinctly remember an incident from my childhood.
A man selling detergent had come to our door. When mom refused to buy, he said that he’s a Brahmin and it’s a shame he’s having to go door to door to earn a living & we should oblige him by buying because he’s owed that much.
India's stated policy (as per the central bank) is that it will simply sit tight and hope that millions of unemployed youth will emigrate in search of jobs and their remittance will fuel the economy back home.
India continues to teach the world what not to do.
@Turinhorze
The sad fact is, most of these people (or most Indians) are one financial-emergency or a health-scare away from poverty.
The biggest believers in capitalism are the ones without capital. The ones with capital know how broken the system is, as they're the ones who have gamed it.
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@JohnWick0876
Yay. Now that you have said it, casteism is dead. Do you see how dumb this sounds?
You want all the "benefits" of being from a lowered caste without any of the stigma, generational trauma and everyday pains.
You seem like a good person. If you know it's offensive, why say it?
I have a similar response to Indians who critique North Korea.
Global Hunger Index ranking:
India - 111
DPRK - 106
Infant mortality rate (per thousand live births):
India - 26
DPRK - 14
Now tell me, which of these two countries is living under the worst sanctions imaginable?
This is what every Indian city looks like. Hardly a Bengaluru problem.
Indian cities are made up of construction zones, landfills and people living in between.
The benefits of India's growth have been cornered by billionaires, aided by a corrupt ruling class. The vast majority of Indians live poorer lives than the generation before them. Housing, education, healthcare are unaffordable. The government has given up & wants us to emigrate.
It will never cease to amaze me that pre-genocide Palestine, under constant existential threat, had a higher HDI score than India.
That's how comically corrupt and evil India's ruling class is.
@NotyourVivek
True. India's oligarchical system & complete lack of job creation aren't helping. On top of that, we are the most populous country on earth. It's not wonder that people here are so desperate that they even want to go to Israel & risk death, if it ensures that they'll get a job.
@john_keshav
@getpeid
Directly competing with Samsung and Apple would probably be a mistake. Few who consider spending $1000 on a phone are going to opt for anything other than an established brand.
I'm glad India didn't participate in PISA, because the last time we did, Indian students ended up second last in the rankings.
So naturally, we stopped taking the tests. And all was well with the education system in India.
"Out of 81 countries selected in the analysis, we are number 51 particularly in Science, Mathematics and English language. Even among seven Asean countries,we are the worst of all,"
GGWP. We are regressing so bad.
India's south is rejecting Modi, and that will have profound implications, writes
@andymukherjee70
, as the more successful part of the country drifts away from the poverty-ridden north via
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Barely 1% Indians travel abroad. I wish more did (or could afford to), specifically to our neighbouring countries in South East Asia.
One of the reasons anger over our ruling class is limited to the occasional protests is because most of us don't know how the rest of Asia lives.
I stayed in Vietnam for 22 days, working and traveling across the country, mostly solo. This was my first time traveling solo to a SEA country and for every woman out there I highly recommend Vietnam because it’s safe, cheap & people are so nice.
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I don't blame anyone here. This is capitalism, in all its ugliness. Don't look away — deep down this is what we have all become.
We're a poverty-stricken people being forced to serve & protect the economic interests of the genocidal empire in the West & a comprador ruling class.
This video is saddening. This boy's mother sells flowers outside a temple. He insisted on buying an iPhone, and went on a hunger strike for 3 days. In the end, the mother gave up and bought him an iPhone with her hard-earned money. Her expression says a lot. 💔
BIG NEWS - Reliance, Viacom 18, Star India TV channels, Disney+ Hotstar India merge into a single entity making it India’s largest entertainment company.
In the newly merged company,
Reliance - 61%
Disney - 39%
is because "good people" are afraid to take a stand against the caste system and casteism. They fear losing their friends & colleagues and perhaps even their own privileges (be it generational or otherwise), when taking a stand against it.
The stakes are sadly much higher (2/5)
These videos are symptoms of a larger disease. Yes, everyone should strive to be honest and diligent. But when the entire oligarchical state is rigged against the working class, what do you expect people to do?
I'm not pro-corruption, but the cleansing must start from the top.