On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:26 PM, salil tripathi <[email protected]> wrote: > Globally-mobile Indians also include labourers who go to middle east/SE > Asia. Creating a two-tier passport system would concretise class/caste > system. If you wear suits, have credit cards, and speak english and work for > mncs, one queue; if you look like a construction worker, go to the back of > the line.
I totally know that my proposal is objectionable on many grounds. It creates a caste system of sorts as you say. It also crudely views people as "resources" - economic pawns with no connection to heritage, culture, history whatever that can and should be moved around for economic benefit. I deliver it somewhat tongue in cheek obviously, given my liberal tendencies :D As a thought experiment in real politik - there's no way a billion people can be equal in any sense of the term. Human equality has come a far way in the last century, but we still aren't at the stage where even 20% of the world can sees itself as being equal. All of the first world together is still not a billion people. I'll point out that economics and free markets also create castes - those eligible for credit cards and those not, those with jobs and those not; those who are rich and those not etc. Equality is a chimera; and economics erodes at democratic values in many ways anyway, so this isn't by itself an anathema to economic growth advocates.
