> Making the process more efficient does not increase the level of > injustice or inequality in society.
The process isn't more efficient for everybody. It's for a few. And that's inequality by itself? > How is turning up at $rich-nation-embassy and standing in line for > half a day or paying someone to hold your spot from 4AM in the morning > and getting frisked before getting interrogated by a bored white guy > any more equal? No smelly non-English speaking poor bastard of an > Indian will even stand a chance of clearing the embassy gate anyway, > so where is the equality? Well, everyone in India is equal. We may not be equal in the eyes of non-Indians (to other foreign nationals), but we don't treat them as equal either. (I just heard that a flat owner rejected a tenant because he was korean. In an expensive flat in Bangalore.) I've seen smelly non-English speaking fellows get visas, and nonsmelly English speaking poor bastards get rejected. If the visa process needs to be more efficient, the Europeans/Americans/Anyone else should weed out who they don't want, or give a preference to someone with an education. Why ask India to differentiate? Already America does it with H1-Bs where a four year college degree is a major plus or something. Other countries do it in their own evil ways. They have that prerogative, even if offensive. \> India might as well drop the hypocrisy and come clean that the > population is unequal and having wealth makes one the new upper caste > Brahmin in the capitalistic age. But we don't want no upper caste brahmin differentiations. I suppose if we thought that upper caste brahmins were necessary, we would have class differentiated in 1950. We didn't, and in fact went quite a bit the other way. Not saying that was good, but we rooted for the underdog then, why would we that change now? > The former is a fig leaf, since as I said our society is unequal, > let's get over it. This doesn't quite work, does it? I don't like reservation (because it's class warfare in another way) but the best people come out of the strangest backgrounds. The best programmers aren't from IITs, the best businessmen aren't from IIMs, and if there was class separation there, we'd not have some of the best in town (including Reliance!). Just because there is temporary inequality doesn't mean you stamp it in law. > And the latter is merely an implementation problem; > there are definitely ways around this. More job opportunities for the > private sector to own and administer this problem surely - after all > the private sector solves everything better and faster, yes? For the most part :) I assume now that you're just playing devil's advocate, but why the private sector should come into this is a little beyond me. They can be more efficient if they want to, but if the need really is that people want the "better" visa, they'll get it. Bajaj manufactured more scooters than his "licence" allowed him to, flouting the law and openly challenging the government to arrest him for providing to the people what they needed when they were willing to pay for it. Either ways, the problem is of countries not giving visas for the educated, then the better thing is to appeal to those countries, no? Since they are so much more developed, it must be easier to create a campaign to tell those consulates that if Indians have these qualifications or income, we should get a visa faster? These countries are so much more reasonable that they will listen and in a few months, change their visa laws appropriately.
