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[Results] Prelims 2020 Over - Gearing for 2021

Notif nahi ayega. kabhi nahi ayega.
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@NightKing next year june.


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ab 3 4 mahine ka extra CA karo baithke! waise till march tak sabhi acche se karte the, and april may  upar upar. abhi april may june july ka adha mahine tak atleast deep se karna padega.
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@Sasta_Shahrukh bro, neet and jee have 2 massive advantages that upsc doesnt have

1. UPSC 2019 is still incomplete as a process and i doubt they will start off 2020 without completing 2019
2. JEE etc conduct exams in 2 3 cities of a district, unlike UPSC, where the centres are mostly limited to state capitals or most important cities
3. Dont expect dates to clash, coz i can bet, UPSC or any other exam will try their best to keep social distancing, so that would mean, every centre can accomodate about 60% 70% of the capacities they could in normal days. So , chances are slim that the exam would happen in july.





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@pizzza kaise ho? tum mujhe pehchanoge nahi, but we had quite a number of fights on urban naxals and stuff! kabhi free ho toh batana, dm pe baat karenge!


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@Lost faltu info deta hain. last 2 saal se dekh raha. not an insider.


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Please do not say that since he got UPSC mains right, War is inevitable!:see_no_evil:

sensationalist post after seeing india tv or maybe such other channels

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@pizzza kya baat. Kaafi umdaa. Yaad rakhne ke liye dhanyavaad. How's life?


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@pizzza theek thak chal raha. Ek covid, upar se amphan. 😂😂😂.

Waise, Tum de rahe ho is baar? 


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@Sasta_Shahrukh bhai purana dosti hain, aisa mat bola kar 😂😆. 


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@Dijkstra tumhara interview kaisa gaya?


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@Admgenalanezh stay safe bhrata


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@Johnny_Distracted  KUTAs are keyboard warriors. Critically analyze. (15 marks)


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@Xarathustra and then on 25th September mein mocks mein kachra mcq fir se galat karne ke baad... Thots and prayers.


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@Xarathustra The most important takeaway of covid 19 is this

>People have learned to wash hand


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A critic of the NEP:

Reminder : this is a critic post, yes, there are quite a few pros in the Nep, but that has already been heavily discussed across media etc.


The present NEP has received quite a warm welcome from most sections of the society. However, i see the NEP as more problematic than anything else. First things first, I have issues with the author of the NEP itself, K. Kasturirangan. Legend has it that this man is actually a know all. He knows everything, from environment to education. Do you remember madhav gadgil report on western ghats asking mining at western ghats to be stopped? You remember once that committee report was revoked who formed the new committee, and how he relaxed all restrictions wrt mining at western ghats? Yes. There we have it. THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND. 

One should firstly take a deep reading of the NEP draft firstly to know where this is coming from. Now, for all the love ushered on since the days of NEP draft, this is prolly the 4th so called "celebrated committee on education" we have had since independence. What changed? What will change? That needs reading through the finer print of the policy


A.Creation of Samajik Chetna Kendras

Reminds me of what happened in German schools during bismarck and French schools during Napoleon. In any case, do expect nothing more but an all round shilling of shakha based indoctrination in these kendras, all at the cost of your tax money.

B.Defunding and financial autonomy to colleges and univs and calling for financial independence by 2032

Let us not forget how NITI ayog has been aggressively pushing HECI and a full on market based fee fixation of University courses. In other words, they have been pushing for a monopoly of private institutions. Lets not forget, in any case the case of Institutions of Eminence, where KIIT AND JIO Institution are "greenfield institutes of excellence". Remember, how in the previous budgets, there has been an aggressive push towards pushing the educational institutions to "GET FUNDING VIA EXTERNAL.COMMERCIAL BORROWING", which would inadvertently involve, a huge exchange rate issue.

What's the idea of niti ayog? Well to privatise and defunding the *elite institutions*, replace the entirety of this "mobile" engineering/doctor section to a lower skilled section, or rather lower unskilled section. This has much to do with the job market. The qualification of the "so called unemployed" (either structurally or voluntarily) has much to do with "aspirational friction". In other words, you consider yourself a bit too qualified for a sweatshop daily wage labour. This affects labour availability and mobility. NITI and "the neoliberal horde" has been saying this for some time, *The problem is not with jobs, but that people are not ready to work for such jobs*. This also prevents, in a way, the cheap labor drain to the developed economies, since the avg TCS guy, will then be restricted to just a *diploma*, and thus have lesser probability of escaping the Indian labor market. So, yes, the *new educational era* will push towards creating of 2 sections:

1. *A higher educated class, that will perpetually remain the monopoly of the entitled* . 

2. *A semi skilled section, with very little negotiating power*

This, they are pushing in 2 fashions

1. By creating a humongous entry barrier for the lower and middle classes to higher education by extremely high fees, keeping them restricted to the creme de la creme of the society. This is very much similar to the CAT MODEL.(Huge cost of education ->take a bank loan to study ->your solvency in the upcoming decade to depend on your ability to be an obedient slave in the industry, also your wings are necessarily clipped, unless you are a *papa ki pari*)

2. The more the privatization, the lesser the scope of *social mobility*. Remember, the idea of reservations exists in public funded and not private funded education.

C.NEP recommends setting an Indian Institute of Translation and Interpretation (IITI), National Institute (or Institutes) for Pali, Persian and Prakrit, strengthening of Sanskrit

We already have the central institute of Indian languages at mysore. What have we done to it over years? Killed it systematically. Haven't we? And, why does this *Special stress on sanskrit* keep repeating itself all across the policy? It's a red flag, we all know it, better we acknowledge it.

D.A stress on MOOCs and digitizing education

Again, the idea of digitizing education works only in a "DIGITALLY LITERATE" state. What's the level of penetration of 4g that we have across rural areas of states? Apart from Kerala (KFON policy) which other state has even taken a stride to make "internet accessible to the poorest as a matter of right?". 

So, we must realise the idea of MOOCs is going to stay a predominantly urban thing. Good, but here comes my reservations

MOOCs, firstly can never be a replacement to good teachers. Somewhere this whole MOOC therapy is being used to "papercover the cracks" of a very shaky Indian primary education teacher system. Why do I say so? 

Firstly, moocs prevent any interactive  participation. I cannot raise an innovative doubt in a MOOC, (even though its theoretically possible in the comments or dialog boxes, we know it doesn't work, mostly it goes unreplied, and if replied to, it's mostly as and how we see in reddit etc) so this blocks the *Spirit of reasoned thinking and understanding*. This will only further boost the coaching industry, as people will surely understand zilch out of PPTs. For more on how an Indian MOOC is going to look like, please take a course at epgpathsala or swayam.

Secondly, MOOCs are going to corporatize the indian education scene like never before. This will prevent any creative and reasoned thinking. We all know, corporate mouthpieces can never be *A CRITIC OF THEMSELVES*, And the whole discipline of neoclassical economics is in itself a glaring example. MOOCs are meant to be concise, and to the point. But education, if you see, is much more about *Nuance*. And *nuance* would mean, no part is less important. What I fear is that, in the forceful imposition of *rationalization*, many important things like *fundamental rights* might take a backseat.

E.On continued push towards Pseudoscientification of Science and tech

The idea was pretty much significantly perceivable when the govt pushed a scheme like SUTRA- PIC under  Ministry of Science and tech (Scientific Utilization through Research Augmentation-Prime Products from Indigenous Cows” (SUTRA-PIC India)) . The rampant decline in the science congress delegates and discussion was also pretty much evident.

Obvious decline in standards of medical education is also very much evident as the govt unabashedly pushes for private market fee fixation for as many as 40% seats, and giving a free hand to the private sector monopolies of medical colleges. Similarly there has been a gigantic push, towards Indian standards of medicine and Homeopathy, and there has been a concerted push towards formalization and rebranding of the "pseudo medical" approaches.


G.No changes in the menace that is Entrance exams

Seasons come, seasons go, years come, years go, policies come, policies go. But the menace of coaching and entrance exams still thrives and chokes the indian education system. Lets not fool ourselves, none of the STEMCELS here, including me could even dream of cracking JEE without fiitjee, none of the medicocels without akash etc etc. Similarly, what is disturbing is the push towards "vernacularization", of primary education, while we all know, most of these entrance exams will invariably involve English and your competence in English at the end of the day. Neither CAT nor UPSC will become a "language neutral" exam any time soon, given the essence of these exams are  "word twists".  Similarly I have seen people of mixed backgrounds suffering in JEE and NEET.


H. *On ECCE and 5334* : 

Words words words. So much it speaks on ECCE and 5 3 3 4 model, with so little to show for. A broken anganwadi system can never become an early childhood care system. Play based models of education would require skilled and properly incentivised staff for the same. 

Furthermore ECCE, globally is required to inculcate ideas of abstract pattern recognition and creative thinking in children. However there's no mention of the same in the indian NEP. Indian NEP woefully restricts itself to learning of alphabet and numerics in ecce.

However, to me, all this ECCE is mere hogwash.Good luck expecting it in a country, where "Baal ashrams" in the spirit of "ekal vidyalaya" are "shown as the way forward". On Ekals and shishu mandirs, there's already loads of accusations on how the shakha uses these education centres for brainwashing and creation of future shakacels. 

 On 5 3 3 4, it really won't affect the system much, given 10th and 10+2 exams has already become of lesser and lesser importance, and it's rather entrance exams that matter.

I.6% of GDP towards education

Again, no way forward for the same. There's no proper policy approach given on how the govt would do the same. In the absence of such a policy framework, saying 6% gdp is just the same as the numerous declarations towards the same that has happened since 1947. Right from radhakrishnan panel, we have been striving towards "measurable improvements in education expenditure" and here we have it, at a measly 1.xx%. What I further fear, is that in the absence of proper policy framework, it will be more like funds pushed towards hogwash institutions like "JIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIBERAL SCIENCES". 

J.NITI ayogs religiously pushing towards combining institutions of tech and humanities as all in one univs

This is far more concerning than most people presume it to be. Lets face it. Science and humanities are as miscible as oil and water. While science is about "reasoning and logic and proper observable results", humanities is not so. Scientification of humanities can have disastrous results, very similar to what we see today in economics, where veritable idiots, with 0 knowledge in *sociology and anthro* make policies for numerous people, consider themselves mathematical experts (while at best, they just try to optimize established models, like a layman) while turning a blind eye to perron froebinus, which clearly shows market equilibrium is not possible mathematically, and takes "variables of choice" to fit "pre determined results and conclusions" that would fit their masters interests. Humanities unlike science is not value neutral. Also, while science dwells best in "observable" domain, humanities dwells best in "abstract" domain. What I fear, is that there will be a slow and sedate defunding of liberal arts institutes like JNU and market orientation of "humanities". In other words, humanities won't remain humane, after all!

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@Dead Man @pizzza dekho bhai log, our country is a giant gta server. Isme sirf ek hi cheez dhang se hota hain, kutaai.

Toh zyada ummid mat rakho, prepare toh rehna padega fir jaisa situation ayega dekha jayega 


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@Yo_Yo_Choti_Singh arey zeenab, kya hulchal? 😂 good to know you still frequent here!


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@Yo_Yo_Choti_Singh doing fine brotha, doing fine!


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In hindsight, the policy makers of niti ayog and its regression models have as much credibility as akash chopra and sanjay manjrekars commentary in cricket. In other words,comfortably biased.
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@Agog  bhai ji a lot of it has to do with political will of the people. I don't want to sound rude, but do think about this, how many of us even caste a vote on the basis of what happens at the ground level?

At the end of the day, we also have to realise, that political parties have adopted the "propaganda/foxnews/breitbart Rupert Murdoch Steve bannon" model coz it fucking sells. People don't give a fuck that fellowmen are suffering. They want cheap commercialized drama, like say the whole SSR thing. The death of someone, has been commercialized. Jo log covid mein maids ko 2 3 months ka wages nahi deke bhaga diye wohi log dhumdham se "covid diwali" aka batti jalao celebrate kiya. Ek baat socho, you remember that incident where there was that girl in some station and her mother died and that video became viral, or that case, where that father couldn't go back home in time and his son or daughter passed away? News channels, youtube and so many other platforms made millions in revenue out of the views generated from.the news, out of the clicks, out of the traffic, just out of those 2 news. Had they even shared 5% of the revenue generated of that news with those people these people would have at least jumped out of poverty bracket, wouldn't they? So, they were made a commodity, and sold and profit made out of their sorrow.

Lecturing apart. We live in an apathetic world. A world where we celebrate people like ayn rand. We live in a world where people don't give a fuck about other people and corporates see people as commodities. Unfortunately for us, politicians come from the same gamut of people, they represent "US". 

The problem we have is lack of "good faith governance, economics, policy making", and not of "intellect or capacity"



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@cat but bhai USA ka covid haal dekho. Population infra ki baat utna nahi hain. Let's be honest, for how so many deaths india and china may not have reported, we have handled covid better than USA, At least till now. Abhi baat to a lot of extent priorities ki hain. Whether you would be ready to insure profits and businesses for the short term and thus throw entire low income population under the Bus, as USA has done, or go for the long term approach. 

I am not a malthusian, in the sense I don't believe population is the problem. Socialism wasn't the drug either. Capitalism has killed millions in the last 2 decades (recessions and covid) and before that in colonialism and neocolonialism. Neoliberal bodies want us to believe there is no solution, but I think they are the problem themselves

On this note, I won't argue with you, coz see we believe in 2 absolutely different schools of thought, so that's how it is


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@cat quantifiable data is against you.  

On poverty, EAT LANCET commission on sustainable diet has found a minimum of 200 rupees or 2.8 dollars per day requirement. That's higher than the IPL, if you know. Shows us how much of a joke IPL is

World bank has studies aplenty showing how much of a joke trickle down is and that it doesn't even work, but obviously we have hacks like jagdish bhagwati still jumping high on it. 

Atkinson committee on poverty has asked for a movement to "social poverty", and if we fix a line as IPL+ 0.5*median income say bye bye to all poverty indices

Quantifiable data, as I have has shown that NEOLIBERALISM HAS INCREASED POVERTY WORLDWIDE IF WE TAKE CHINA AWAY FROM THE INDICES. In developed countries,<6 childhood poverty has increased

Neoliberal bodies want us to believe that labor reforms must mean going away of all protective measures for employment. But empirically it has been provenremoval of labor laws actually increases exploitation and reduces employment, so such policies are mostly junkyard stuff, sold by crony politician economist nexus to save their corporations


(If link broken, Google "Adascalitei and morano ILO labor laws and employment")

Its sad that even the semblance of relief that we have today in public health care and public health institutions are all relics of nehruvian socialist era and we have added zilch in our "days of growth"

 Data for the above graph  taken from world in inequality database


Trickle down doesn't work:


https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2016/12/31/Causes-and-Consequences-of-Income-Inequality-A-Global-Perspective-42986

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Personally I would prefer a 5% growth rate with most of it going to the poorest rather than 10% with all of it going to the 1%

Too many words, depends on how you define poverty. As I said, eat lancet commission has shown already 2.8 dollars of food requirement for sustainable diet. Yet if you say a dollar a day is poverty reduction, I can't have much to say.

Also, i think on China you are necessarily wrong. A lot of chinas successes is due to a far far better human capital, that developed post GLF, and pre liberalism. Also post liberalism, China has only opened up certain SEZs to globalization. The banking sector, the crucial resources sectors remain closed, and under  close govt control. When capitalists and lobbyists speak about China they forget about the 100s of PSUs that china run till date, some of them just for purpose of employment generation. In globalization, China has had huge economies of scale advantage. It opened up in such sectors that gave it a surplus advantage, but kept sectors that were underdeveloped closed. This has not been for india, where imposed globalization meant opening up most sectors bar agri and dairy, where At least we could achieve food sufficiency. Chinese growth engine was in its human resource. It is still in its human resource. In 90s neoliberal economists used to mock china, in 2000s they said china will be the failure of the century, coz protectionism. 

The rubbish propaganda would call china communist on some days and capitalist on some other, depending on what they want

Meanwhile you really want to see the heavens imposed neoliberalism can create? Check up Washington consensus and its effects on latin america. How it toppled regimes and privatised resources like water. How people came to streets and revolutions happened.

Marcin kalecki had already shown that full employment is very much possible. But it is against the will of capitalists. 




Also, redistribution doesn't depend on growth. It depends on the ownership of growth. Read up on Baran ratio, compare that of India and china with that of USA and come back. 

Also growth depends on demand. Demand depends on expenditure. Expenditure depends on disposable income of household. Disposable income of household depends on wages. Wages, depend on the extent of laws and legal protection. If the major share of output is owned and not redistributed , sooner or later it will lead to secular stagnation and a collapse in growth

What? We have Better labour laws now? What kool aid are you drinking? Please pass on some. Anyways, I would prefer not to respond any further. You need to study a lot more. Please comply.



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@cat  C depends on demand. G is dependent on government. So basically socialism. I is investment and if you know the decision of investment

Di = f (p,k,s,x) k being fixed capital, s being savings, p being ability to profit. Now that's why your 0 corporate taxes don't work, why? Coz while it improves savings, companies won't invest a penny if there's no ability to profit. What does it depend on? On ability of people to purchase the product of the company. On the demand quotient. In a country where people live on bare minimum income, they can't have enough surplus money to avail such goods and services as corporations produce, thereby declining profit. So once again, socialism. 

Once again you googled out a piece of headline saying Chinese private sector having 70% contribution to 80% contribution. This is exactly what you shouldn't do. For China the greatest component of their gdp and growth is HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION (39%) and INVESTMENT IN FIXED CAPITAL (41%) which is because there is demand in the market, so there's sufficient reason to expand production and produce more.



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>IMO, we should nationalize health and education. That will give people disposable income to spend on the products of company

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@cat  Nordic countries? Read up on Swedish PSUs. Widening the tax net is not possible in neoliberalism. Its one of the reasons why our RD is burgeoning everyday and we are playing fiscal deficit blah blah. Welfare mechanism needs sufficient tax money. That in EU can happen because of GS GN divide. Why so? Nike produces textiles at 70rupees in bangladesh. Sells at 70 pounds in UK and pays off taxes to EU. The tax generation here is from labor generated in Global south. Michael parentis face of imperialism writes up on the impossible working conditions in bangladeshi textile sweatshops. These shops are basically hog tied to the global capital generating in the global north. You can't keep labor subservient to capital and expect good welfare policy. Surplus accumulation for europe and USA has always been on the basis of generation of dependencies in the global south. (Please look up samir amins dependency model)


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@cat  that's coz human capital. What efficiency do you expect in a state where 20% people aren't even literate?!

Also please read my edit.


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@Handshake I don't know if anyone here has contempt for msmes. Am all for supporting them, not the India inc and the cronies. Neither am I in support of a policy where the MSMEs are literally left at the mercy of a few oligarchs, who have all the buying power.(literally the reason why TreDS exists)


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@vision2020  let me rather ask you this. Is there a capitalist country that conducts biological experiments on its citizens for 30 years without them knowing about it? Yes. There is. Have the private sector oligarchs supported it? Yes. 

Welcome to land of freedom





And this is just a small list,


Just imagine if china had done the same, the whole world would have been reeing.

Thus, again, manufacturing consent by moan chomsky remains a required reading





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@cat  as I said, you need to read a lot more. You neither have data, nor data sets. 

And as long as rate of return of capital is more than growth nothing can happen. 


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@cat  okay. Here I have to cease any interaction. Also, its wired. Not wire. As I have said, you know zilch about chomsky too. Its better not to interact. Go and do your daily dose of opindia and go to sleep man. 


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@cat  and yet gujarat is yeeting millions by the day and the only state with any defence of substance is kerala. Equality of poverty reeeeee. Stop repeating dumbass talking points like the average twitterati. Be better than that


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@vision2020 @vision2020 Uighurs. Go and find out who did the groundwork reporting on uighurs. Adrian zenz. The same man who believes that USA and china are in civilizational conflict, that lgbt is a mental disorder, there's only one god that's christ and every other religion is not true or kafiresque etc. That majority of the work reported on the uighurs is by zenz, who by his own admission doesn't know mandarin, and is a proclaimed white supremacist, isn't something that you should raise eyebrows about


Also, even for USA people couldn't know or criticize any of the acts of CIA as long as they were done. Only after the whole set of biological experiments completed were they brought to light. Also read what happened to unabomber


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@ranahere999  that the state doesn't have capacity is a fallacious excuse. Its more like the brain dead argument reagan and Thatcher gave, without any empirical data to show for


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@cat  see, this is why I say you didn't study. If you had you would have known I was very clearly referring to gujarat model of growth vs kerala model of growth that is the bhagwati vs sen debate. It's sad that half of the things i write is going over your head. In other words the trickle down v socialist model of growth. 


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@Handshake please give me any literature on Uighurs, sponsored by the US, that doesn't have adrian zenzs work as reference. I would be all ears. 

Are there camps? Yes. Are they bad? Yes. Are they concentration camps? No.

That's the nuance

And yeah, you people should read up on the trilateral commission, which happened before the advent of Thatcher and Reagan. 


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission


Remember this commission had Jeremy Epstein, had one of the founder members of mujahideen, proclaimed on establishing the supremacy of neoliberal global order and advocated minimum democracy. 


In 1980s, IMF had a dutch sufi , I forget his name, he said that the extra funds that would be generated from the energy market should form a surplus fund, that would be distributed equitably to LDC and developing nations. This is when we know iraq happened, and the globalisation of oilfields was on. They literally predicted that the insane amount of Petrodollars resulting from the same should be used for development and not go for financial market bulging. Obviously we know who vetoed this out




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@cat  yaar blood boiling taunts na karke kuch accha points/ graphs laya kar next time se. Hum bhi kuch seekh jayenge fir uske chalte. 


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>As long as the CIA's wrong doings come out and no one is persecuted for blowing the whistle, I feel the system works. The crime itself cannot be stopped before its commission in any society. It is how that society deals with such crimes after their commission that defines it.

How many times will you repeat the same thing? Please read up unabomber. You will find out "whistleblower protection". Please read up coup on bolivia for lithium and read about how pinochet was imposed on chile. Please read up what happened to those who spoke up against the apparatus


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@vision2020 sentiments have turned? Bolivia? Bolivia? Literally happened last year


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@Handshake see, my point is USA doesn't have the right to sermonize anyone over anything. Neither china nor india. Do I support chinese camps? No. Do I support the kashmir experiment? No. 


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@necromancer  again I have never said that CCP is doing re education and the camps are good. Never have I said that the camps should exist. Never.

What I have said is most of the material available throughout and the "exaggeration" involved is to push more propaganda. Its mere propaganda . There's a lot of difference between not trusting murican mouthpieces and being a CCP lackey



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@vision2020 yeah, really so good. People come burn flags and disappear. Obviously. Had they been able to rise and organize, the native American population would not have been reduced to a bloody sanctuary in USA. When the state kills people with impunity, its tossed into the bin, coz maybe its legal. It's also because white lives and colonist lives matters more than the tribal life. Yes. That's not what I said. Godfather of liberalism hayek said. Hayek said we should not consider all lives as equal. Had there been no revolution cuba would have remained under batista and become a colony. What happened in Chile? Millions killed for raising voice against pinochet. Who cared? None. 
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@Handshake  Obviously, every guy of science "supports hayek". Interestingly hayekian economics and austrian school is the only fraudulent school that isn't backed by any mathematics. (Yet they speak about empirical evidences etc etc)


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Also@necromancer , next time se don't delete stuff after posting coz email mein dikh jaata hain. Anyways. Anything that puts you peoples view points to question, is "untruth". So, hey, whatever floats your boat.

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@Handshake please read again. Being intellectually dishonest is not a good way forward. Hayek clearly states that we shouldforget inequalities that are present already and consider them an accident and move forward, and inequalities lead to a better elite. 

I hope you write the same on EWS and reservation answers in UPSC, we should forget inequalities, caste system is an accident and it leads to a better elite


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@Handshake Implicit inequalities are accidental and must be accepted. It will lead to a better elite

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@Handshake lol, thank you. Go and read the second stanza again. Its referenced. I can't help blind people


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Hayeks liberalism 

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@Handshake the next one is from the horses mouth itself. As you have read hayek, you must know which book it is from


Also if you agree with it, I don't think we can have a reconciliation of viewpoints coz they are polar opposites. As per the same viewpoint I don't think we should either be salty that our ministers are getting treated in medanta while us plebs are looking for beds, coz their lives hold more value for the society.

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@Handshake he was always against special treatment of a class section etc, aka affirmative action, on the basis of inequalities by birth. You can read more on him. That's what the whole hayekian legal position is, you can find out for yourself. Even today when someone says you don't need reservations in an exam coz both you and the guy who's father is a rickshaw puller are being tested on the same basis, its the hayekian argument. I think you should read up more on the hayekian position.


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@Handshake I don't agree with his conclusions, though. I haven't received much criticism for my moral position except being called utopian, but I would say, we shouldn't go for judging which life is more important, coz its simply neither objective, nor its that simple. We should rather stress on maximum number of lives


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@AureliusM bhaiji ek baar pt365 dekh lio, those who were here last time can testify, how vision monthly gave wrong info about fixed term contract in October magazine but had the correct info in pt365. The thing is I believe the PTs are better reviewed than the magazines. Just personal opinion. Content wise 97 98% same hi rehta hain. Bas ek do cheeze chorke


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I would not try to sound too nihilistic, but the truth is no one cares. Your life holds as much value to the system as the ant in your house. You are not some ambani or adani or their 5th generation that anyone will give a fuck about you. The news media that should have taken up such issues died long ago.


Take the bitter pill : exams will happen, some of us will contract covid and round about 500-1000 of the 10,000 that will qualify prelims will go for mains underprepared, due to no fault of their own. Some of them, might end up getting severe load and might end up with life risking disorders for the rest of life.


Whatsoever exams will happen. Please prepare. 

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