The latest GDP data by GoI has triggered so much blackpill, and I must say it is disheartening. One thing going for India was its GDP growth, and a middle-class man was happy that if it kept going that way, then his investments would increase, and the upward mobility ladder would be easy to climb. But it seems like that isn’t happening.
India has many problems. The justice system doesn’t work, the bureaucracy is too much and corrupt at its core, one cannot buy real estate even if the person sells their kidney (both of them), the politicians don’t make laws to ease our lives, and everything from the ground to the top of the policy ladder is corrupt and selfish.
An auto wallah is more likely to beat you to death than you are to get killed by your loved ones. There is no road hygiene, everybody drives like a maniac, and if you haven’t been run down by a truck/bus/car, it is because you are simply lucky. A rich person can just run you over and face no consequences. A party karyakarta can beat you up with no consequences.
I keep trying to stay away from blackpill, but things are so broken that you cannot stay away. It is saddening. The govt has taxed the middle class so much that people don’t want to be middle class. Instead of bringing up the tax base, the govt has decided to squeeze its middle class more. Our fuel taxes are so high that people calculate the fuel costs before taking their vehicles out.
People don’t want to buy vehicles because they are taxed 40%, which is totally unreasonable. The corruption is so much that most of the black money gets deployed in real estate, and that has made the prices of real estate so ridiculous that a middle-class person cannot even buy a house.
No financial reforms, no social reforms, no cultural reforms—just revdi to the unproductive strata of society keeps increasing.
I exercised just to forget all this blackpill and ease my mind, but that isn’t happening. The only reason I am in India is that my family is here; otherwise, I’d be working towards moving to a different country.
Rich people don’t have a sense of patriotism because they can move whenever they want. But the middle class cannot park their money abroad because, well, the govt will screw you. A middle-class person’s growth is directly linked to the growth of the country. With inflation out of control, there seems to be absolutely no reason to trust the govt. I know these GDP numbers are for a single quarter, but they take a toll on people’s hopes.
India needs to grow at 8% QoQ to maintain hopes and aspirations. We won’t become Vishwaguru with this growth. And we need 8% growth to keep the blackpill away because then people stop focusing on the system, which is corrupt to its core and doesn’t work.
Phew. I didn’t wanna do this, but I had to because I needed to get this out of my system.