eSagan 🇮🇳 @crackurbones@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2019
@Full_marx You know what? Sometimes I feel that India has to choose between ‘equality’ and ‘democracy’ – India can't be "world's largest democracy" and "a free & equal society" at the same time.
Any democratic government that puts an end to this caste-based reservations will upset the caste "vote banks", and thus will not be able to win elections for the next term. There are reservations for castes not because government imposes them on people, but because people force the government to reserve seats for the castes. In a democracy, you cannot upset the mass, which can be ignorant and greedy — the reason why Socrates hated democracy.
Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami
@freemo @Full_marx @Karthikdeva "Caste discrimination" is not the issue in 21st-century India, well for the most part.
What remains problem is caste-based reservations. Politicians are busy appeasing certain 'castes', wiping their arses, to woo them to get votes.
The caste-based reservations do no help to the poor and underprivileged.
Here's a paper on this, if you are interested: https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/IMG/pdf/JobMarket-2paper-CASSAN-PSE.pdf
नमस्कार, Mastondon. #MyFirstPost
Joined Nov 2019
