The insinuation here is that Kenya is poor, but Kenya is fairly well off. What we are seeing around the world is a global rise in living standards which is great.
India's GDP Per capita numbers are highly thrown off by how cheap it is and how young it is.
That being said, Indian GDP PPP per capita is 12k, while Kenya is at 7.5k, so about 66% larger than Kenya
People like to mention GDP per capita with India as if it's some kind of flex. Indian GDP per capita by PPP is not the highest in the world, but fairly typical for a developing country and it has a high growth rate.
>>fairly typical for a developing country and it has a high growth rate.
Exactly, nothing special in other words. I would bet on Mexico, Columbia, Philippines and Vietnam before India. The government has no ideas except for a bit of autarky and whipping up anti-Muslim sentiment.
India's growth rate is higher, and it has more stable family formation than those countries.
Regarding 'anti-muslim' sentiment... This is a tired trope. Muslims get special privileges in India that no other country gives them. Taking those away is not anti Muslim. I'm from a minority community in India myself (Christian). While it's not the greatest situation it's helluva lot better than other countries in the region.
Phillipines has similar issues with Islamic terrorism and takes similar stances to India but manages to fly under the rug somehow.
“A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. What does it mean that thirty thousand people, not athletes, but rather weak and ordinary people, have enslaved two hundred millions of vigorous, clever, capable, freedom-loving people?”
This was written by the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1908. It was in a famous letter he wrote that Mahatma Gandhi later republished in his newspaper.
Considering the British East India Trading Company, which was a corporation, enslaved the country of India for a hundred years….I think it makes sense India feels an “emotional reaction” when some corporation “steps on its toes.”
As an American president once said:
“Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice…you can’t get fooled again!”
India became independent in 1947 inheriting from the Raj great infrastructure and a working administrative system. That was one year before the proclamation of the CRP at a time where China decided to somehow destroy itself with idiotic agrarian reforms.
Now take a look at India and China nowadays. Maybe some hard questions need to be asked regarding what India did in the past 70 years. Colonial history is an easy excuse to brandish. Does it truly help? I’m unconvinced.
India's share of world GDP fell from ~24% in 1700 to ~4% in 1950. There was an explicit de-industrialization of India - colonial Britain destroyed the textile industry deliberately. Keep them poor and stupid was an explicit state policy.
India was heavily exploited by the British compared to China. Extraordinary raw transfer of minerals to the British - most geographical areas were fully exploited of gold, diamonds, coal, manganese, mica, etc. Mines were left utterly bereft - colonial Britain was world-leader in resource extraction. Enforced cash-crops agriculture -instead of local crops that could feed people, farmers were forced to plant indigo, cotton, opium, tea, etc. This resulted in several mass famines.
Independent India was left dead poor - extraordinarily more poor than China with no mineral wealth left to support industrialization.
China was only semi-colonized and retained nearly all its mineral wealth.
No serious person blames colonialism for India's slow development (stop listening to loud mouths online).
Honest people know it's because India, while a liberal democracy, was actually more socialist and centrally planned than China, up until the 90s when the first free market reforms were made. This is almost two decades after China opening up.
Honestly people on the internet have warped views of both India and China.
As for what India did... This is an ancient society which still has customs and such dating back God knows how long. It is not easy to change. Simply existing as an independent nation after almost 1000 years of foreign rule is an achievement.
I've not been to India in almost a decade now, but when we visited regularly growing up, the amount of progress every trip was astonishing. I don't see how anyone can deny that
Nothing has destroyed American goodwill than imposition of extra-territorial sanctions.
Btw when the US imposed sanctions on Hong Kong leader ,she had to collect her salary in cash as no bank would process it.
Is it a case of being left by the train and now trying to rain on the parade ?
Attention span has shifted from the next iPhone release to the newest LLM
The more I read articles from 20 or 30 years ago, the more I realize how little analysts actually knew about the future. Entrepreneurs and scientists are the ones who correctly predict it—because they create it, or at least attempt to.
Some plans succeed, while others fail. It’s a numbers game.
Invest in every half-decent Bezos you find, and one of them will likely make you a multimillionaire in a decade or two.
I don't understand the logic behind your sentences at all.
Bezos is literally a one-in-million entrepreneur. Like you say, it's a numbers game. The vast majority of entrepreneurs fail (especially startup, "hockey-stick growth"-type entrepreneurs).
But you seem to be holding analysts to a much higher standard. Yes, lots and lots of analysts are wrong about the future, but a few of them are right. I'd probably bet that analysts are more right than entrepreneurs are, simply due to the fact that it's easier to be right about generalities than to do everything necessary it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.
> Bezos is literally a one-in-million entrepreneur.
That's besides the point. The critical aspect is that Amazon was tapping into a market that Wall Street analysis failed to even understand existed, even though it was there staring at them and poking them in the eye.
It's hard to even conceive how, in the middle of the dot-com boom, market analysis systematically failed to even identify there was a market for cloud infrastructure.
It's like during the gold rush failing to realize there's a market for pickaxes.
It's very easy for internet randos to dismiss Amazon's strategy as one-in-a-million bets and something no one would ever conceive. Except this was exactly the opposite. Amazon was sitting on top of a huge compute infrastructure, which they had to build themselves from scratch, and which the company was financing as a purely operational expense. Any business analyst worth it's name would ask "how can we turn this into a revenue stream?" If they looked outside the figurative window, they would see lines of CTOs of dotcom startups imploring everyone for renting any semblance of compute infrastructure to get their startup off the ground. You do not need to be a genius to put two and two together.
wouldnt it be amazing if you could somehow crunch predictions from every analyst made in the last 30 yrs and tell who was right and who wasnt using machine learning and how much money they could have made you?
I don't think you can use one of the world's most historically successful entrepreneurs to make this point.
> But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Actually,reporting on NK or China's surveillance is usually because they are geopolitical adversaries not because they are dystopian.
So to think that the EU cares about freedom or privacy is to be naïve
The point is that reporting on NK's and China's surveillance of their own citizens is framed as dystopian. The framing only works if they claim that such surveillance is dystopian.
Of course elected representatives don't necessarily have the same opinions as news reporters. But you would expect consistency within the same publication
The system is designed to make you think you have a chance.
Ask the 30 people arrested in the UK everyday for their social media posts what they think of this ability to "fight back".
"In a despicable attack on the freedom of speech, a German right-wing journalist has been sentenced to seven months’ probation for mocking left-wing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser."
"The editor-in-chief of the news website Deutschland-Kurier was punished for sharing a satirical meme on his X account. The meme, which was posted by Bendels last February, shows Nancy Faeser holding up a sign, with the words: “I hate freedom of expression.”"
The removal of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent destabilization of Iraq can be seen as a highly successful strategic project—if viewed through the lens of geopolitical interests rather than official narratives.
It effectively eliminated Israel’s most significant regional threat and dismantled a key unifying figure for the Sunni Arab world.
Unlike other Sunni regimes that had largely aligned with American and Israeli interests, Saddam remained defiant.
The publicly stated reasons for the invasion—WMDs, democracy promotion, and anti-terrorism—were largely smokescreens meant to pacify public opinion, obscure the true motives, and keep people distracted and divided.
"Beijing has done something we don't like, now we must start harassing all Chinese companies."
India must come to terms with the fact that it is still at Kenya's per capita income level.
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