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US having a comparatively bad welfare and extremely expensive education system, while being a good place for people who enjoyed this and therefor have amazing e
by tete 13y ago
US having a comparatively bad welfare and extremely expensive education system, while being a good place for people who enjoyed this and therefor have amazing education isn't exactly news. And India going down in the last century and being the major victim of capitalism also isn't news.
Okay, this sounds quiet anti-capitalist socialism thing, but these are the fact. Every system has winners and losers and usually the enforcing party is the bug winner while the opposition (India was communist) was the loser. On the other hand educated people enjoying a great social system are the big winners, just because they were born there and people who don't enjoy are the big losers. It's not true in every case, but you can see this by the difference between people in India and people from India in the US. Just like you can see it by how much the richest/poorest people in the US earn (or GDP compared to various expenses and forms of income).
Okay, sorry that sounds really anti-US, but there are so many good things about the US and I really don't wanna sound like it, because I love to visit it and think about moving there. Just the US in the past decade or two didn't do as well as it could have been and while I am the least to judge I just really know from people living there that everyone wants to change something to better and you know the whole world has been looking up to and I think the US still is the most "motivating" country if you can say it that way. Or in other word it just has the most/best opportunities. I mean SF is like amazing, but I don't know. It's the whole country. Like, you are more motivated in the US and I know my friends (from both US and Europe) feel the same way.
In my opinion all this country stuff isn't really a good thing for the globalized world. I say that as someone who by what I said definitely could/should have brought it further, so I really hope this doesn't sound too much US bashing. We have that more than enough.
That's at least my person opinion when western countries have to deal with economic refugees.
- realrocker 13y agoIndia was never Communist. It was Socialist(it still is to a large degree). Big difference.
- monsterix 13y ago> India was never communist. I'm not too sure about that. If you look at the actions, and not just merely words, Indian Government has always leaned towards communism. Emphasized social equality for all, focused very little on reward and innovation.
- realrocker 13y agoThe basic tenet of communism: to create a money less class and communal ownership of property was never adopted.Neither in words nor actions.
- r0h1n 13y agoThe parent is right. India has always been a socialist/pseudo-socialist country. And while a few state governments (Kerala, West Bengal) have been communist, the central government has never been communist. "Emphasizing social equality for all" isn't communism, you should know.
- realrocker 13y agoKerala, West Bengal have communist ideology. They don't have a communist administration. Again, no money less class, no communal property ownership.
- r0h1n 13y agoSorry, you're plain wrong. Both states have had communist administrations for decades on and off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_%28Marxist%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_%28Ma... But the latter part of your comment is still valid, in that these administrations haven't been "as communist" as in China or Russia.
- realrocker 13y agoWhat do you mean "as communist"? Indian Constitution has no place for communist way of economics. Calling oneself Communist Party of India does not automatically make them practicing communist economics.
- cscurmudgeon 13y ago"And India going down in the last century and being the major victim of capitalism also isn't news." Umm... what?
- AsymetricCom 13y agoBecause of globalism, everything that wasn't bolted down was taken from India and China. But they both have strong sovereign policies that have kept them from being taken advantage of too much, and what's left is now very lean and powerful. You take the good with the bad. http://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2011/11/hans-rosling-sovereignty-and-capitalism-got-china-and-india-moving/ http://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2011/11/hans-rosling-soverei... Now such policies are being attacked, like this article, because they are not friendly for foreign businesses, more than anything. Sure, it's not very friendly to entrepreneurs either, but it's up to India to decide how much freedom it wants to give to people who control significant percentage of its country's value. Maybe India would be better off investing profits in American businesses than investing in India through taxes? Or maybe business man would be more successful if they were very liquid in assets? That is for India to decide.