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India is like a century or more behind. What is there to contain.
by boruto 2y ago
India is like a century or more behind. What is there to contain.
- jameslk 2y agoCentury behind by what measure? Not from a GDP growth perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_largest_historical_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_largest_h... They’ve been climbing each year, ranked 4th right behind Japan They’ve also been climbing substantially in energy use: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42295 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42295 Historically a proxy for economic growth
- crote 2y agoThat sounds like the "China can only produce cheap knockoffs, they can't produce anything new" from the early 2000s, or the "Japan is never going to catch up with American chipmakers" of the 1960s-1970s. Indian people aren't stupid. There's literally a billion of them, and we've spend the last twenty years outsourcing an awful lot of work to them. If you don't see them as a potential future threat, you have already lost.
- boruto 2y agoI am an Indian who live in India after a decade of living in the west. I know what I see around me everyday.
- Daishiman 2y agoAnd you can't see how far ahead things are compared to 20 years ago in India? And you don't see how a lot of things in the US are still going well but beginning to stagnate in many ways?