how is India, equally populated country to China, is nowhere near the economy level China (EVERYTHING is made in here) has achieved with its manpower.
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tl;dr India’s government is corrupt, nationally parochial, and the people have been conditioned to accept their lot. Rote repetition is prized over critical thinking, making them passable labourers but not exactly excellent scientists or physicians.
They did not redeem.
India is beholden to an incredibly rigid caste-based society and dharmic faiths teach them that the world is fair; everyone genuinely gets what they deserve thanks to karma. This does wonders for the longevity of their society at the cost of R&D. Furthermore, the Indian people have overall spent large portions of the early modern and industrial era under the sway of foreign powers, starting with the Mughals and ending with the Portuguese and English. I clarify English as the Honourable East India Company was founded in 1600.
India’s status as being property of the Bri*ish saw improvements imported (Ghandi was saying that the Empire had an excellent system of governance and wanted more of it, in India) but the caste system mostly staying static because appeasing the top of society encourages them to keep everyone else down. They have been dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age with Iron Age traditions. Compare to China. China’s sorrow would flood like clockwork and trigger dynasty changes because it was a sign they had lost the Mandate of Heaven. The Jurchen tribes to the north were a constant threat, unlike an India with the Himalayas, desert, and ocean.
Every 30 years or so, MBAs get the bright idea to invest in India to then get scammed big time when the government nationalizes their investments. India, culturally, has a massive “screw you, got mine” mentality specifically because it is a rat race. It is genuinely more profitable for an individual Indian wanting to get ahead to simply be a plague of scammers, welfare leeches, and H1B fraudsters abroad because foreign money is worth so much more than the rupee. China also wisely focused on heavy industry and shrewd playing of the market with a unified vision under the Party, while India’s upper echelon is a rat race of snobby rich power brokers butting heads.
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