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That’s more of a reason to engage in this kind of activity. Also. No country in the world has infrastructure for that many people, let alone India.

rhaway84773 3y ago
So you eliminate all imports? That makes absolutely no sense at all. Also, as far as I can tell there wasn’t any major electronics shortages in India outside of the pandemic driven ones anyways. So it seems like whatever system did exist worked. And frankly, if you want to promote local manufacturing, doing it at the expense of your biggest exporting industry, the technology services industry, might be the stupidest idea possible. Imagine being a software services provider telling your client that they can’t take their business because they’re unable to replace the laptop that just broke since there’s a 6 month waiting list for it. It’s fascinating seeing India going back to 1989. Reversing the changes of liberalization which is widely agreed by nearly every Indian as the one change that allowed India to grow and compete globally seems to make no sense. And it’s even worse that Indians are trusting the government that brought demonetization to make these changes.
intended 3y ago
Yes. This is where we had so many great ideas come from! We had Brexit. We had protectionism. We had Nehru’s close mindedness on foreign Investment. Finally we get rid of the shadows of the 90s, when India opened its market and ended up being a dynamo of foreign investment. —— Joke’s aside, the really absurdity is that this is happening under Modi’s regime. It may sound critical, but Modi’s regime is highly mercantile. There are far too many people in the cabinet who (should) viscerally hate protectionism. If not in parliament, then amongst their supporters - many of whom are modern business men. This is weird. Something else has to be afoot. I can’t square it otherwise. ——- Edit: Nope: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/how-to/why-govt-banned-imports-of-laptops-computers-how-will-it-help-india-here-are-all-the-answers/articleshow/102417277.cms?from=mdr https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/how-to/why-govt-ba... Apparently protectionism is the root. What in the living hells?

rhaway84773 3y ago

So you eliminate all imports? That makes absolutely no sense at all. Also, as far as I can tell there wasn’t any major electronics shortages in India outside of the pandemic driven ones anyways. So it seems like whatever system did exist worked. And frankly, if you want to promote local manufacturing, doing it at the expense of your biggest exporting industry, the technology services industry, might be the stupidest idea possible. Imagine being a software services provider telling your client that they can’t take their business because they’re unable to replace the laptop that just broke since there’s a 6 month waiting list for it. It’s fascinating seeing India going back to 1989. Reversing the changes of liberalization which is widely agreed by nearly every Indian as the one change that allowed India to grow and compete globally seems to make no sense. And it’s even worse that Indians are trusting the government that brought demonetization to make these changes.

intended 3y ago

Yes. This is where we had so many great ideas come from! We had Brexit. We had protectionism. We had Nehru’s close mindedness on foreign Investment. Finally we get rid of the shadows of the 90s, when India opened its market and ended up being a dynamo of foreign investment. —— Joke’s aside, the really absurdity is that this is happening under Modi’s regime. It may sound critical, but Modi’s regime is highly mercantile. There are far too many people in the cabinet who (should) viscerally hate protectionism. If not in parliament, then amongst their supporters - many of whom are modern business men. This is weird. Something else has to be afoot. I can’t square it otherwise. ——- Edit: Nope: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/how-to/why-govt-banned-imports-of-laptops-computers-how-will-it-help-india-here-are-all-the-answers/articleshow/102417277.cms?from=mdr https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/how-to/why-govt-ba... Apparently protectionism is the root. What in the living hells?