On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:06 AM, SS <[email protected]> wrote: > The only good news I have seen (but do not believe) in Srinivasan's rant > is that Indian waistlines have become smaller. Nonsense, but I wish it > was true. This may be an illusion that Srinivasan is propagating. Why > must everyone be equally well nourished? Society is never equal. Let > inequity persist. Capitalism is about inequality. Socialism is about > spreading things out. Socialism is no good. If we do not worry about > wealth, why worry about nutrition? And on those lines why fret about > caste? > > After all what is the use of bringing up all people to have the same > nutrition, health, opportunities, education and intelligence and then > screwing them when it comes to jobs and wealth generation and claiming > that the > wealthier ones are smarter? We need people who will be watchmen and > security men who can sit for hours and hours doing absolutely nothing. > Why try and make everyone really well fed, healthy and smart? Whose idea > was that anyway? >
Redistribution before growth http://www.livemint.com/Politics/zvxkjvP9KNfarGagLd5wmK/Everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-SenBhagwati-debate.html We still follow socialistic policies when they have failed the world over. India is not even half-hearted capitalistic. -- Vinayak
