> India has a huge population. They all need jobs to support their families. So the local gov't has it covered. Yup, completely agree. > Would you prefer thre

> India has a huge population. They all need jobs to support their families. So the local gov't has it covered. Yup, completely agree. > Would you prefer three of those five people being engaged in a riot and the other two, on gov't payroll, beating the shit out of them? To clarify, in this scenario, are you saying that there are three unemployed people rioting and two other people on a government payroll (presumably po-po?) who are beating the shit out of the rioters? Honestly, _ideally_, I'd want to see universal basic income so that people who don't have jobs don't feel the need to riot. I'd want to see everyone's basic needs supported. Having said that, that's my idealism showing and I don't know how this would realistically work. My background in economics is weak to put it simply and I don't know if this could scale to a population the size of India's. > Mr. Rushdie has a book with short stories on that. Taking a look at his bibliography[0], he's written quite a few novels, any specific one(s) that you'd recommend? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie#Bibliography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie#Bibliography