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The bill was public. It was debated for a while, and anyone could have read it during that period if they chose to. There was none of the here is a 5000 page bi
by quantgenius 6y ago
The bill was public. It was debated for a while, and anyone could have read it during that period if they chose to. There was none of the here is a 5000 page bill and you must pass it in 2 hours or the economy goes under like happens in the US Congress. They not only took the farmers into confidence, they took the opinions of the farmers into consideration and amended the bill. Each individual substantive line item being demanded by the protesters is already included in the bill. The bill literally cannot harm any actual farmer. It will prevent certain bureaucrats and politicians from receiving bribes from the buyers of produce and as a result will likely increase what the farmers receive by the amount of the bribe paid. They can quite literally only get MORE for produce than they get now, the bill obligates the government to guarantee this.
- imtringued 6y agoI don't think a single HN submission does this topic justice but the fact that there are so many small farmers to begin with is strange. It's highly inefficient. It would be better if they get a city job and let a big agriculture company take over. This would increase incomes on both sides.
- pkd 6y agoHaving many small players is not by itself inefficient. The inefficiencies come from lack of modernisation which is (in large part) a direct result of the stasis induced by the kind of government meddling that these farm bills are trying to reform.
- selimthegrim 6y agoIt’s a status thing. If you are Jat Sikh you own land or work in military, otherwise unless you have business forget about a rishta
- sbmthakur 6y agoThat could explain why protests have large scale support in areas dominated by Sikhs and Jats.
- alex_smart 6y agoTo add to this, most of the farmer organizations protesting these reforms had themselves been asking for them for years. Just one example: https://twitter.com/BKU_KisanUnion/status/1101674010666913792 https://twitter.com/BKU_KisanUnion/status/110167401066691379...
- sifar 6y ago>> The bill literally cannot harm any actual farmer. That is a very bold claim. How would one prove it.
- srean 6y ago> It was debated for a while, and anyone could have read it during that period if they chose to. You are playing semantic games here. Please post the records of Rajya Sabha discussions and the Lok Sabha discussions (these are the houses of parliament in India). Then lets compare that with the process and volume of discussion of other laws that were passed (barring abrogation of article 370, demonetization, CAA/NRC were more or less the same methods of sneaking in a law were applied)