For many years now I have observed a great divide taking shape in my country. In my very home city of Kolkata, India, I have observed something that for many years I had put aside as a subsiding problem. Poverty in my country has not gotten better, but instead, it has become an even larger problem for my country as it heads into the 21st century and beyond. Government estimates state the current poverty level at around 30% of the total 1.2 billion population. Reuters on the other hand, classifies poverty as being below Rs 22 per day, that means nearly half a dollar, a claim they say, nearly 80% of India lives on. For some perspective, it costs RS 12 for a 300 ML Pepsi bottle in India. This disastrous situation reminds me of the US during the 20's and 30's, the Pre Depression, Depression, and post depression periods. Pre Depression, the rich (top 10%) in the US owned 90% of everything while the rest 90% owned 10% of everything. This setup would go on to create a great divide and would create a very unbalanced economy. As a result, the Depression would occur in which the US economy pretty much stalled. Post Depression, WWII would revamp the US economy and would totally revamp the whole system. (Along with the New Deal and all ofcourse) I see India in that PreDepression phase. If the gov't does not rectify the problem, if capitalists fail to reinvest in the system, do you agree that disaster could be knocking on the front door?
Interesting view with good examples i want to say that our country is developing but that we are forgetting our poor. Raj
Yes India has some problems in that sector among many other countries. - but in general nobody likes to look out and admit poverty/neglect and all the other problems they live amongst, that would just make there ideal world collapse in states of depression and god knows what will happen then. Plus how can you change and help towards the problem if you are struggling to get out of it your self as an individuals and as a society. It needs to be a world wide respect and instead of multimillionaires/governments etc spending there money on materialistic crap they need to unite and work on it together for any improvement to be made. They all say a little helps - bs, it makes them justify to themselves that they have done a "little" and now it is up to everybody else to help out. "Hahaha"- like they don't take enough of our money already it is a joke!
Since when is asking nicely if someone would care to post their opinion bumping!? I wonder why you did not attach the whole portion of the transcript of the convo? Now lets get the thread back on track..
@ Saulyx: How dare you accuse a person who is just asking you to express your opinion, this is not a sale thread where they NEED this thread to be number 1, he merely wants people's opinions... sheesh, take a chill pill.
Well that's really an alarming situation the country's in. No wonder Indian freelancers are bidding those "outrageously low" prices for the jobs here in DP. It's hard for a US citizen to realize that $5 per * IS money for someone...