Before I start working today, let me give you a small threat to ponder upon, focusing on how the #MiddleClassIsScrewed
1. Between 2000 and 2014, the Indian economy was opening up to new possibilities. We knew something lay hidden in the future for us
1. Between 2000 and 2014, the Indian economy was opening up to new possibilities. We knew something lay hidden in the future for us
Indians were buying more, spending more, getting mobile phones and hell, even sarkari employees who previously thought that this job gives them only dal roti for life got a mega bonus in the form of the 6th pay commission.
Young Indians were waking up to brands- in terms of food, clothing and other consumer products. India had finally arrived on the world stage. Our young were working hard and playing harder.
We made investment portfolios and thought Mutual Fund sahi hai. We carefully researched the best phones in the market, the best value stocks, the blue chips and more. Between 2012 and 2014, something started feeling off.
An average middle class Indian thought that he was being taken for a ride by the government. His cultural insecurities were blown out of proportion and he was now focusing on making India not just a superpower, but a sone ki chidiya
Riding high on a potent mix of all sorts of opium- bias, bigotry, insecurity, anti-incumbency and what not, they became intoxicated with the power that they newly acquired- a full wallet, a brimming bank account, a crazy investment portfolio.
For some years, they sat patiently, hoping for a miracle. Suddenly, a virus attacked and their dreams of foreign holidays and their labels of #traveler were gone. They were suspicious of things, they were trapped inside their homes.
Now, their wallets are being emptied by taxes, their investment portfolios are bleeding, their bank accounts will soon be reduced and the jobs that helped them pay their EMIs could be in grave danger.
What could you possibly want at a time like this? A stimulus package? Na. Someone told you on WhatsApp that it will increase inflation. So what do you do? You make TikTok videos. After all, you still have a roof on your head. Not like you are walking interstate in May sun.
