Ep 242: India's Security State
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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You've Incentives Rent Seekers
I think what paguti kindof meant was exactly what this system has created. You've incentive ays rent seekers. What we designed at independence was essentially a predatory state. Therefore, though, you'll get leaders like that who are attracted by the lust for power. Where we are a democracy without really being a republic in the true sense. And i would say we didn't liberalize enough. We didn't do enough to unleash the ontropeneral spirits of people. I think it did a lot of good. It got your 300 million people out of poverty and all of that. But the point is it it was very far from a magic pill. Obviously, look at the state
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