I mean yeah on the face of it having similar (by then even a bit bigger) population size to China, plenty of natural resources and the largest amount of habitable land in the world, it seems bad that India is only producing a fraction of what China is. But maybe they can compensate for that by going hard on IT and finance to be like the rich, developed western nations. Working in factories or on construction sites is for losers anyway, smart people work in offices writing code or trading stocks - those are the high paying jobs, ergo it stands to reason that a country is better off the more people it has doing those kinds of jobs... ideally 100% of the population for maximum profit!

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Working in factories or on construction sites is for losers anyway, smart people work in offices writing code or trading stocks - those are the high paying jobs, ergo it stands to reason that a country is better off the more people it has doing those kinds of jobs, ideally 100% of the population for maximum profit.

This is too on the nose, and it would be funny, if India were not the most populous country on the planet with dire HDI metrics and poverty worse than many beleaguered nations. At least some of these sepoys still go into medicine and civil engineering, but yeah…that country is fucked

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

You'd think that's too far fetched even for a joke that someone would have a take like that but it's not as far from reality as you'd think. I've known people who genuinely seem to believe that we've evolved past the need for industry and we can all just write apps for a living.

[–] Burningmeatstick@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Well two things, if one the Himalayas didn’t exist then neither China nor India in their current shape would exist but two, if they disappeared tomorrow, ignoring geographical changes, expect a lot of people crossing into the border from the Indian side to the Chinese