tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post6444961138546361270..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: You will always have the poor among you?Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-82449188062161210012015-10-10T07:37:51.270-07:002015-10-10T07:37:51.270-07:00Oh yeah, Trump is clearly defining a new social c...Oh yeah, Trump is clearly defining a new social contract--but that is not coming from "enlightened self-interest" ... perhaps in this age of polarization, which is facilitated and developed by social media, we might never again see "enlightened self-interest" ... we humans are idiots!<br /><br />I will never ever give credit to China's system. <br />Let me present it another way. India and China started self-determining their fates about the same time. In the years since, China's system has reduced poverty, yes, but it was the same system during the seventy years that 45 million died from starvation and systematic torture during the famine. The system that added misery via the "cultural revolution" and the "great leap forward." The system that imposed a tight control over the number of children that people could have. The system that made sure not to recognize that humans have rights. If you praise this system that then "lifted" hundreds of millions out of poverty, then surely you also mean that India would have benefited from such a system? A system that continues to deny many of the basic rights that people in India do not even have to think about because it is so much a part of their existence?Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-53473278372846532202015-10-09T19:38:56.699-07:002015-10-09T19:38:56.699-07:00The reason why a new social contract is not being ...The reason why a new social contract is not being designed is simply because its so hard to agree to. In fact, the new social contract is being articulated all the time by the politicians. Trump is indeed articulating a new social contract. We may not like it , or even hate it, but it is being articulated. Ditto Bernie Sanders on the other side. A zillion others are doing likewise. But since the views are so polarised, an agreement is so difficult. In this world of "enlightened my interest only and to hell with anybody else" , its almost impossible to have any form of contract.<br /><br />So lets simply applaud what's happened on poverty reduction in the developing world. The one country which has single handedly changed the world's statistics on poverty is China. You should at least give them the credit, however much you hate their system.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com