nervous_ring

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by nervous_ring 6y ago
Firsthand experience and many folks I know have seen it. Some of them actually turned to farming seeing the benefits and are actually generating humongous amounts of profits. Like my immediate neighbor is doing it right now. I'm not fr
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by nervous_ring 6y ago
I'm not saying farmers shouldn't get the subsidies. But no one should have a problem if the sector's inefficiencies are removed and that generates frictional unemployment. Uh, if they have access to every facility to improve
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by nervous_ring 6y ago
Farmers have access to 24x7 free water and power supply (something I in the city don't get). They get access to free seeds, pesticides and unending loan waivers year after year. In exchange we get the worst air pollution in the world a
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by nervous_ring 6y ago
India is a mess precisely because of the never ending virtue signalling and good-on-paper rules. We always have the most protectionist rules and then we wonder why industry isn't growing. Welfare schemes don't work, period. 99% mo
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by nervous_ring 6y ago
We did get a strong online payment system because of it. It is bearing fruits, just not as well as we'd hoped. And yes, I'm aware of the problems it caused too. Look, I'm a strong liberal but it's hard not to dislike the
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by nervous_ring 6y ago
A)Funded by opposition and foreign players. Always a presence whenever civil unrest is involved. B)India has a love-hate relationship with communism. We are a poor country because of it, but poverty pushes more people to communism. C)Whenev
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by nervous_ring 6y ago
For the Western audience, tl;dr is that these reforms will allow free market to decide the price. This has made a lot of people very mad who had their own monopoly. Farmers do have legitimate concerns about predatory pricing by private inst