Video Information:
Context:
~ Why India provides cheap labour?
~ Does Indian economy is responsible for cheap labours?
~ How Indian economy can growth?
~ What is the solution to control population in India?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ Why India provides cheap labour?
~ Does Indian economy is responsible for cheap labours?
~ How Indian economy can growth?
~ What is the solution to control population in India?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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00:00 India has been gaining economically because India can provide cheap labor.
00:10 China too has gained.
00:12 India in services, China in manufacturing.
00:18 But fundamentally that's just in some way an exploitation of the fact that we are just
00:25 too many and too poor.
00:30 So people produce kids and then what do those kids end up as?
00:42 They end up as laborers, helps, maids, cooks, cleaners, plumbers.
00:49 I am not berating any of these professions, but for sure I also know that being a maid
00:57 or a cook or a helper is not obviously the fullest expression of one's potential.
01:05 In that sense I am calling it unfortunate.
01:14 These days we are calling it here in India as the demographic advantage or demographic
01:21 dividend.
01:22 We are thinking that this is what will catapult India to the foremost league of prosperous
01:33 nations.
01:34 We have so many young people who can work.
01:38 So India will either export their work to the rest of the world or export the workers
01:45 themselves to the world.
01:48 Nice, but I would have rather had a situation where these many people in surplus didn't
02:03 exist in the first place because most Indians from the lower classes and the lower middle
02:13 economic classes, they live pretty wretched lives.
02:18 They do provide a lot of comforts and conveniences to the moneyed people, but their own lives
02:26 are quite miserable.
02:31 Imagine dollar one a day is not available to a lot of people.
02:38 Just imagine dollar one a day.
02:43 So I guess I actually, sometimes you get the feel for it just maybe from the general kind
03:06 of vibe you get from people.
03:10 Sometimes there can be this kind of a... it's hard to find the right word for it.
03:22 But for example when I see the shop clerks and the guards and well the maid is very nice
03:34 though, she is very polite, but it's clear that they are not enjoying themselves.
03:43 It's a very like...
03:44 Of course, of course.
03:45 The average Indian lives a very confined, very joyless life and you would not want to
03:59 trade positions with him, no way and believe me a lot of that is just due to the population
04:10 we have and somehow leaders both political and spiritual have not been able, rather not
04:22 been willing to drill this down to the Indian mind that kids are not an important part of
04:34 the happiness package, that having kids is not a random event, that kids are not sent
04:49 down by God, they are not divine gifts.
04:58 So that concept that having kids and having more kids is a very central thing in life,
05:12 especially that of a woman, is very deeply ingrained in the Indian psyche and that needs
05:22 to be corrected, not just to control the population, but to develop the Indian mind itself.
05:32 As long as Indians keep taking reproduction so seriously, they will not have time or space
05:41 or energy to give respect to the more important things in life and I am talking especially
05:50 of women.
05:53 You can't imagine how much an average Indian woman spends of her whole life in just giving
06:09 birth to and raising kids.
06:13 Now the fertility rate has dropped to less insane levels, but just a few decades back
06:24 the average Indian woman was just continuously pregnant, one kid after the other, 4 kids,
06:33 5 kids and one or two of them would die early and then more kids and then you want a baby
06:42 boy in particular, so more kids.
06:53 And it's the funny counterpart in the West, I mean probably many Western women also want
07:00 kids but then they have fewer ones, but they get more resources than the normal.
07:11 Now the fertility rate I think TFR is about 2.1 or something in India, I may not be accurate
07:19 in that case, I do want to stand corrected, but it's now greatly fallen, but still with
07:28 the population that we already have, it needs to, 2.1, 2.20, it needs to fall even further,
07:42 2.2 is still alarming.
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