Yes governments are supposed to end poverty, so people should hold them accountable.
Well, sounds right, but which people?
The ones stuck in a consumerist loop getting overworked just to pay bills, taxes & for universal rights like education & healthcare?
Those who are either
spending hours rushing to work, or trapped in endless work hours under the illusion of flexible work hours as they work from home?
Those who are burning out & aren't able to fill that void in the absence of a personal life & fulfillment by buying things they don't need only to
end up working extra hours to pay for all that, & ending up even more dissatisfied?
Those who are rationing everything from hanging out with friends, family time & recreation, hence failing to find fulfilment in them because they are stuck in a race where they work for a better
life, yet life just doesn't seem to get any better?
Those who don't see how those afternoon naps, those weekends spent sleeping are a product of how burnout is making them physically sick?
Those trying to cut down big expenses via EMIs & credit only to fall into another debt
trap that increases average debt per household, cutting down cash flow in the market, to hurt the overall economy even more?
Are these masses supposed to use the little they are left with to take on powerful governments which make sure they stay stuck in this cycle?
While the
few rich who they are either working for, or are paying for services & products for which they work even more,
have ample time to praise genocide enabler megalomaniacs like Modi, have time to romanticise poverty with cringeworthy social media posts, have the finances to buy
social media platforms just for an incompetent, bigoted leader's freedom of speech, have the energy to crack down on unions,
but are never seen taking on any exploitative regime not increasing wages or giving subsidies to corporation while common people battle price rise or
waging war against their own people to give away mining contracts to these very billionaires.
They won't because they are fine as long as governments don't #TaxTheRich
So if governments not billionaires should end poverty, what are the billionaires doing with their financial
resources, powerful positions in society & access to the ruling classes, to influence policy decisions to end poverty,
the way they spend on lobbying to get subsidies, easy access to resources & to cheap labour?
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Even Modi's autocratic tactics aren't original, he simply takes notes from Erdogan.
For starters, making Twitter & other platforms appoint local officers was implemented in India right after Turkey to control social media.
Another example is how pro-Erdogan corporates in Turkey
took over most media organisations since he first came to power. Ambani & now Adani, among others are doing the same for Modi now.
Courts in Turkey also became bystanders especially after the coup attempt, used as an excuse to silence any criticism if Erdogan, Indian judiciary
may just be worse than Turkey's in that regard.
The BJP won't recognise blunders like demonetisation or haywire GST implementation, which damaged the economy, just as Erdogan won't identify interest rate cuts hitting the Lira, which he based on religion.
Just because NATO didn't start a new conflict for a while, the world seems to have forgotten their depravity & how low neoliberalism can fall.
They're diverting funds of starving Afghan people, not Taliban, to 9/11 victims after throwing them to religious extremists.
The global
community will stay silent on Taliban's atrocities & apathy towards suffering people, but will never recognise their government, be it China, Russia or US.
Because a legitimate regime will be accountable for mining contracts & other resources, that means government books will
have to show a fair value for lithium which everyone wants since EVs, phones, data centres, solar power all need tiny & massive batteries.
But the thing about greed is that it unites big players in a sphere that implodes when each wants a bigger piece. Hence the probability of