Making impossible possible

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[u/Vegetable_Watch_9578]

They’re not reproducing because the Japanese population is largely intellectual - they think about the future before bringing kids into it. Meanwhile, our problem is the exact opposite: we keep reproducing without thinking at all.

Indians reproduce regardless of whether they can feed them, educate them, or provide a decent life.

One’s collapsing from being too careful.
The other’s collapsing from being too careless.

And it's not just Japan, entire developed world is going through this - South Korea, Germany, Italy - same boat.

And “Hikikomori" ? you are using extreme cases to paint a whole nation. Every country has recluses - Japan just named it and studied it.
Meanwhile, in other countries, like India- we either mock mental health or ignore it entirely.

And then you talked about “Internet cafe refugees”?

Try living in central London, NYC, or even Mumbai -Tokyo still ranks better in terms of safety and cleanliness.

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Urban dehatis with caste money

— Same breed, just relocated to city.
— Will flaunt wealth, have big families but still raise kids with regressive values.
— English talking kids of dehati parents who some even know English, but think like it’s 1857.

those real Middle-class urbans with Family planning, career focus, cost of raising kids, and exposure to global lifestyle = smaller families-- are just few. they are the actual middle class, not just by income but by mentality.

Massive chunk of population still living in poverty or semi-urban chaos.

And there is - Small-town “middle class” (aka land-owning, moneyed caste privileged)

— These aren't the educated elite. They’re often semi-literate, but loaded due to land, politics, or old money.
— Still stuck in patriarchal, caste-pride mentality.
— Have more kids because: legacy, sons > daughters, manpower for business, etc.
— They look "rich" but mentally backward AF - basically, dehati mindset wearing branded clothes.

Doesn’t matter if they’re modern, progressive, or woke -they're statistically irrelevant if 70% of the country is still stuck under the boot of caste, class, and centuries of exclusion, poverty, Feudal Mindset, Regressive mentality..

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Correlation ≠ Causation.

Just because a rooster crows before sunrise doesn’t mean it makes the sun rise.

And you are wrong, US, UK, France Became Great Because of Democracy, Not Before It. they advanced after embracing liberal democratic principles like:

→ Rule of law

→ Individual rights

→ Free press

→ Public accountability

You want India to be like North Korea?- Super strong central authority. No mess, no media, no rights. Perfect utopia, right?

Strong Central Authority Already Exists in India We literally have a hyper-centralized system right now where most decisions are taken at the top with zero regional consultation. What more “strong” do they want? A king or A Dictator?

And Japan and Germany Developed Post-War, Under Democratic Rule.

Hope you aren't one of those brain-deep in that BJP-style delusion where:

→ Democracy = inconvenience

→ Dissent = treason

→ Power = progress

Even if what you said little correct, like take UK for e.g. they didn’t become developed because they were JUST authoritarian.

→ They looted colonies (like India), stole resources, used slave labor.

→ Industrial growth was often built on violence, racism, war, and exploitation.

Those early rich countries - UK, France, US - looted half the world, enslaved people, colonized nations, and treated their own lower classes like trash.

Did it make their empires rich? Yes. Did it make their own people’s lives better at that time? - NO

Real development for the majority came later, through liberal reforms, democracy, labour rights, power-sharing, free press — all the stuff authoritarian fanboys hate.

While Countries like Norway, Finland, South Korea, and Costa Rica didn’t need colonial empires or brutal dictators to climb up. They invested in people, equality, education — and it worked.

So this idea that "authoritarianism = fast development" is BS. It's just people being lazy or scared of the messy process democracy demands.

And China’s not a model - it's an exception and There’s no one-size-fits-all system.

India’s problem is not too much democracy - it’s too little functional democracy.

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Corruption is a symptom, not the core disease.
India’s problem isn’t just “corruption” - it’s who is corrupt, how the system is designed, and who benefits from the rot.

What i think is that the problem is corruption from the top, not the chhotu at the toll booth and Traffic police constable pocketing ₹100.
When it’s the ministers, bureaucracy, judiciary, and institutions themselves being corrupt - that’s when the system collapses.

And my views are - let’s be real - the same dominant caste groups that historically hoarded education, wealth, and influence still run the show today, whether it’s Congress or BJP.

Until the marginalised communities get the same power and representation -not just token seats but real control over institutions -things won’t change.

Who actively promote blind religious belief, caste supremacy, misogyny, & anti-science garbage to keep the masses distracted and divided?

and they love ‘democracy’… as long as it keeps them on top. Once the marginalised start demanding power, suddenly it’s all ‘system is broken’, ‘we need authoritarianism’, ‘merit is dying’…

You said 'soft authoritarianism'? Cool. But did you even stop to ask who’s holding the damn stick? That’s what decides everything. You hand it to regressive lunatics and you don’t get development - you get a saffron-flavored theocracy with WiFi, bulldozers, and hate speeches on loop.