🚨 India is Globally Useful — But Not Yet Globally Critical

Well that's difference between developed and developing nation. Currently many of the rural areas still need a decent lifestyle, clean water, good food basic facilities currently they don't care about tech so yeah they vote for what they need currently not about making india great but living a decent life. That's not case with developed nations they already have decent they aim for greatness and i agree there could be some benefit from leadership but there is no better choice and as singapore ex president and ome of the finest leader mentioned the diversity of india makes it harder to pass a single message to entirety of population. (Ex- ongoing language wars). We need a dictator same as china or a two party system for a start so that atleast the process becomes somewhat fast and then we need the mentality of people to become more broader for thinking larger good.

I do agree that the world can survive. But we are talking about countries here 🙃.

In short, "Countries survive, but conversation here is Survive and Thrive"

Countries cannot survive and thrive on an individualised case the way things stand. But, If you look at the trajectory they are moving towards self sustainable models where a Country thrives with their citizens.

If it were that easy Somalia and alot of the African Countries would be thriving right now.

If you were kicked from Yahoo (not jinxing), name an Indian Product Company that you would work for and thrive even if the world shut down all forms of trade and business with India.

You can survive but no longer thrive as a society during that generation (sadly you and me and all of us belong to right now). Maybe as an individual but that's it for your generation.

Are you for real?

Bruv working in Yahoo has got you obsolete. It impacts people like us alot when we dont have anything else to turn to.

Where do we go when the world shuts us out? Can we afford to lose the comfort we have right now?

Getting laid off itself is a nightmare and if this happens where do you even go and what do you even do 😂😂😂

Right now yes. But the bit I was highlighting is the circle of money we are enduring.

Our money ends up directly or indirectly outside. The temple example you gave, this is feasible due to donations. And most of these donors get the bread and butter from working under a company working for people outside India or serving these people in forms of service ( Auto, Cabs, Restaurant, Etc etc).

Second case, govt is spending by taxing those earning. What happens when the earning stops ? They can't tax anymore.

To summarise, just think in this term, countries say lets stop trade with India, we remove our companies from India, we dont want Indian Services nor Indian goods, then what happens to us. Where does our generation go if that happens ?

Maybe our kids generation will think of something but what about us ?

We can survive but not in the way we are sustaining now. My main focus is on surviving how we are now and thriving even when we dont interact outside our country. In short, self Sustainance.

Let me add my 2 cents.

60% of people vote, winners get 40%+ votes. So in totality only 24% vote is needed to win elections.

Politicians get these 24% votes in the name of religion, caste, freebies etc.

People who don't vote are double than blind supporters.

Agreed, it's time for a very overdue change 💯

I concur the same. So freaking true

I agree. This recent lay off news and China US tariff war actually got me thinking on this. How is China able to be so demanding and then it clicked, it's cause they have a thriving internal ecosystem.

It also explains why US badly wants China to sell Tik Tok to a US company. They can't stand the fact there is another country out there with a thriving product.

Its partially correct, I thought the same till I spoke to a few experts on it. Basically we are a circle chain. A long paragraph down but before reading, ask yourself the question if Outside shuts us out like they tried with China, can we really survive ?

We are a large marketplace. But issue is we aren't a marketplace they desperately need. If they leave or we decide not to buy their products, it will tank their revenue not put them out of business. Their profits will decrease but thats it.

We need their help directly or indirectly. We are too dependent on them. We need them more than they need us.

Let me explain, We work for an MNC that mostly runs on money from outside directly or indirectly, the money we get we use to buy the products mostly they produce. So net net money remains in the pockets of the so called people we end up working for.

The money we need to buy the cars, phones, tech, etc come from them directly or indirectly. Export and service is our bread and butter. Most of the minerals we need comes from export, the tech goods too, etc etc. You name it we consume it but if we don't consume it they will survive. They will struggle a tiny bit but they will be back on track. Issue is we are in an illusion they need us.

Its happening everywhere now. Expats from our country are getting kicked out or treated like trash cause they know we need them more than they need us. Our services are struggling now cause they are hiring their native citizens ready to sacrifice profit for the development of the country and the organisation bond.

Meanwhile, if the world decides okay we aren't going to supply anything to India. We aren't going to sell anything nor work with them on anything. We end up with no Phone. Most of the tech we use are licensed tech from some other country to replicate and make cheap, boom tech gone. Cars yes we will have but what happens when the people who can afford no longer have the bread and butter to afford. The Internet we take for granted comes from licensing by the way. So there goes data and tech. Now Energy, for energy we have to pay that's gone. For govt to provide free energy they need to tax, but who do they tax ? Suddenly the people they were taxing is BPL so they go after HNI who would leave the country boom gone.

The middle class or those with purchasing power work directly or indirectly in a space that caters to outside.

Example, my good friend you work at Oracle an MNC. You spend money at a Car dealership or buy an IPhone money injected to the business maybe Indian or foreign. You buy from Kirana store and support local business. Etc etc. But suddenly Oracle decides we are shutting down operations in India and other companies too follow suit. Suddenly we don't have anywhere else to go.

You the consumer stopped buying tech cause the purchasing power is lost. And voila suddenly we end up in a situation where we wake up to realise shit we were more dependent on them than they were on us.

We came into the picture as a convenience for the West and other nations. Basically cheap labour source.

Companies know one thing you dont build great businesses buy selling things for cheap you build great buy selling things for a premium. So for them we are a secondary source. Their main Money driver is those people who spend maybe 10$ on a 1$ product and not people who spend 2$ on 1$ product.

To be honest the system has become too complex that it's easy to showcase an illusion we are powerful. But we aren't.

Oh I see. Then in that case we lost that as well. 🤧🥲

Ngl we are miles away from 1st world. Instead of trying to beat China we should focus on what they did right and see what we can do better and different. Sadly we miles away from that.