That's wonderful to hear. Tell me more about him if you want to.
Sorry to hear that there is not even a remote chance of him participating in discussions on PDF.
Why not ? At least at broad-level give a critique of my proposed economic system.
Recently there was a thread about poor Chinese not able to afford high-quality quality healthcare in China and coming to India to avail of India's medical tourism which they find relatively cheaper than in "Communist" China. Those poor don't have access to free healthcare. But the basic question is why is there a economic class differentiation ( rich, poor, middle ) in a Communist country ? There are billionaires there like Jack Ma but also poor who cannot afford high-quality medical treatment there. An absurdity ! The Chinese middle class is satisfied with its new-found ability to buy personal-transport cars and with the high-pitch nationalism of China becoming a bigger military force, not considering the troubled lives of their country's poor. That is Capitalist China for you.
About Japan, an advanced society socially / culturally with its cat island and all, but also has Capitalism-related ills like high-competition in educational institutions ( leading to student suicides ) and some people keeping the dead bodies of their parents at home and not communicating of this to the authorities as they want to continue receiving the pension of their parents.
The website of the Democratic Socialists of America has a statement that Capitalism creates unnecessary competition among humans and thus creates disharmony ( this last are my words ). One manifestation of this in India is an artificially low number of educational institutes which leads to India having a silly system of limited seats per college to gain which students have to engage in unscientific pursuit of high exam marks. An intimately connected thing to this is some institutes offering some of those limited seats to "meritorious" ( high marks taking ) students. Read
this thread of mine from some days ago about a girl from Telangana who, at a more immediate reason, committed suicide because Delhi University ( your own alma mater ) wasn't sending her the promised scholarship money. Her family was poor and her younger sister had to have her studies discontinued to divert money to the older girl's studies. Was this suicide and their general situation necessary ? Why doesn't India have free high-quality education to all levels and institutes spread all over the country ? Why do student suicides have to occur, including in that accursed town Kota where reside stupid coaching classes ?
You should remove yourself from obsessing with the micro-level well called "jobs" and understand that India needs employment that is scientifically designed, those all that I said to you previously. Think macro-level too. Think holistically.
Until 2014 the arrogant Indian software engineers in IBM-India and TCS thought that they had "good jobs and stability". Then in early 2014... Read
this post.
Also, in India until Kingfisher Airlines had neo-rich software engineers and MBAs had money to fly in luxury to foreign shores on this airline the airline employees thought they had a "good job" and decent life but once those passengers lost jobs or had salary cuts because of external artificial factors this airline couldn't get enough passengers to allow it to maintain its human staff, aircraft maintenance, airport fee and other monies to be given. The employees of Kingfisher lost their jobs and some protested in an organized way. But in the case of one engineer of this airline his wife committed suicide because the family was financially distressed because of their previous "good job" money being invested in purchase or conduct of various middle class things including their son's college fee.
"Supply and Demand" shouldn't always be taken as correct approach. The global automobile industry supplies hugely to India because of demand in India, especially among the Indian middle class which buys cars and two-wheelers. But this has lead to huge pollution from these vehicles. A recent report said that India had four among ten of the most traffic-created polluted and traffic-congested cities in the world and Bangalore being the number one in the world. According to Karnataka state CM, Bangalore has 8.4 million vehicles and most of these would be privately-owned personal transports. Creation of massive pollution which came through "Supply and Demand". Was this the right approach ? What should instead be the correct approach ? Like
this here.
Judiciary... We should think of the release from jail of the right-wing troll Arnab Goswami, the release from jail of that bomber Sadhvi Pragya and the continued incarceration of the progressive activists Varavara Rao and Professor GN Saibaba despite these last two having serious health conditions, though now the Bombay High Court has allowed Rao's transfer to a hospital because the court says he is on his death-bed.
There are other examples too.
We should think about reforming the judiciary where it is found not being just.
1. Did I say India shouldn't spend on science and technology ? Among other fields I want India to spend on making scientific and modern the agricultural sector ( this
post of mine ) and to spend on setting up an ambitious program for an Indian manned Mars settlement, in collaboration with others, by the early 2030s and towards which ISRO can at this point itself set up a Mars Analog Station in some cold desert region.
2. What do you mean by "Culture" ?
How ?
This thread of mine has a proposal from me for a new Communist socio-economic system. It is meant to eliminate economic classification ( rich, middle, poor ). This is still a work in progress but read through the thread and tell me how you think it will retain the poor class, or like you said, will create more poor.
