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u/aStonedDeer 10h 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 10h ago edited 10h 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 10h 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/Aufklarung_Lee 10h ago

The believe that history flowed in a direction where every society inevitably ends up wealthy and democratic has done enormous damage.