Substitute free food for welfare and it might make more sense.
Also your goal is good in the long term. In the short term we will be taking a lot of stop gap measures to reach that point.
I don't think we have the option for mass production/industrialization to boot strap our unskilled labor.
I know of some people who are building startups aimed at giving people in slums more usable skills - like carpentry, plumbing and so on. Those private sector moves will still bear fruit only to a moderate extent at best in generation N=0.
Its only after we get that to reach N=2 and beyond that it should start making an impact.
In short, for us, its going to be a hugely drawn out battle.
I hope that changes, and I may easily be wrong, looking at things from this scale (mobile VAS could suddenly create tons of alpha for its users or who knows what).
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First hand horror stories again:
(Do note I am pro FDI)
A disturbing case that I received second hand was regards how Reliance handled their farmers.
For other HNers, Reliance is a huge (gigantic) Indian conglomerate which does nearly everything.
Reliance encouraged its producers to use a series of crop enhancing pesticides and chemicals which had long term negative impacts to the farmer's land.
At the end of it, the land was fallow. At which juncture Reliance washed their hands of it.
Also your goal is good in the long term. In the short term we will be taking a lot of stop gap measures to reach that point.
I don't think we have the option for mass production/industrialization to boot strap our unskilled labor.
I know of some people who are building startups aimed at giving people in slums more usable skills - like carpentry, plumbing and so on. Those private sector moves will still bear fruit only to a moderate extent at best in generation N=0.
Its only after we get that to reach N=2 and beyond that it should start making an impact.
In short, for us, its going to be a hugely drawn out battle.
I hope that changes, and I may easily be wrong, looking at things from this scale (mobile VAS could suddenly create tons of alpha for its users or who knows what).
------------
First hand horror stories again:
(Do note I am pro FDI)
A disturbing case that I received second hand was regards how Reliance handled their farmers.
For other HNers, Reliance is a huge (gigantic) Indian conglomerate which does nearly everything.
Reliance encouraged its producers to use a series of crop enhancing pesticides and chemicals which had long term negative impacts to the farmer's land.
At the end of it, the land was fallow. At which juncture Reliance washed their hands of it.