There are a lot of people in India who work labor and are stuck with difficult and physically exhausting jobs. Their reponsibilities to the people in their families is immense, the ability to innovate and change jobs for a better standard of living is difficult to even hope for because they don't have much scope for change. So even if a rickshaw guy wanted to change his profession he couldn't because he has to support his family. This is probably one of the smaller issues of our emergent economy and stunted growth.A friend of mine describes his own plight as a predestined move, one that is dictated by time and need. He sometimes says if perhaps the days were 30 hours longer....Sunday, October 21, 2007
There are a lot of people in India who work labor and are stuck with difficult and physically exhausting jobs. Their reponsibilities to the people in their families is immense, the ability to innovate and change jobs for a better standard of living is difficult to even hope for because they don't have much scope for change. So even if a rickshaw guy wanted to change his profession he couldn't because he has to support his family. This is probably one of the smaller issues of our emergent economy and stunted growth.A friend of mine describes his own plight as a predestined move, one that is dictated by time and need. He sometimes says if perhaps the days were 30 hours longer....
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