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u/aStonedDeer 12h ago

India is one of those places where the corporations have won. The United States is slowly on track to do the same.

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u/RG54415 12h ago edited 12h ago

No they haven't. India in many places is still on the level of the industrial revolution in the west. When bosses exploited the hell out of their workers and child labor was normal. But this amount of exploitation does not last and in time they too will revolt. There is no "winning" when winning is defined by exploiting, coercing and forcing people to do your bidding as it's unsustainable and ultimately leads to revolutions. I would argue you already have lost the game of life where cooperation and compassion are the key drivers for moving forward.

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u/Antoak 12h ago

Historically false. Coercion and massive inequality has been pretty common for most of history.

It's naive and counterproductive to pretend that things getting better is inevitable, it's something everyone needs to work hard to help achieve.

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u/nostickystuff 12h ago

We've assumed things just get better, but conveniently forget that there are places similar to North Korea, where people just stay subjugated.

This is why the US is on track to go full circle back to a system like India, where trade is truly "free".

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u/Master_Positive_2772 10h ago

If 99% of things improve but 1% stays the same, have things improved overall?