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Just another day in the 4th largest economy in the world. We're so proud.
Seventy-seven percent of manual scavengers are from Scheduled Caste communities.
Wow I’m saddened. No protective gear, no gas mask.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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A technical correction, India is the 5th largest economy measured by GDP as of now. IIRC US, China, Japan and Germany are ahead. Whilst India will overtake the latter 2 soon and become 3rd largest in a matter of time, it will likely stagnate at that position for a long time since China and US are way ahead.
Edit : As OP pointed out correctly, India overtook Japan last day, so it's indeed 4 th largest.
India overtook Japan in total GDP yesterday
Ooh, my bad. Indeed it did overtake it. Reminds me of the UK overtake where it was a close race for some time (first India went ahead, then UK again raced ahead before India fleecing ahead finally for good).
Japan is highly dependent on imports as it is mainly a service economy and is now struggling due to tariffs and other supply chain issues which are driving inflation and hindering growth. Japan has an aging population resulting in the highest debt to GDP ratio in the G7. India overtook Japan in GDP this past weekend.
India will overtake Germany by 2028 according to current IMF data.
Same freedom, coming to the US next year.
I'm sorry but why the ##### would you do this?
What do you mean by that question?
Why would you dive into a sewer without protective gear
Scheduled Caste systems. They don't have a choice.
So people are forced to swim in poo without protective gear?
Yes, decades of systemic subjugation and poverty. When survival is at stakes, people tend to do the extreme stuff, too
And for the system, it's probably cheaper to just let it happen instead of trying to lift these poor people up
Is there any work towards a workers union?
The (upper-caste) people in charge are often itching to acquaint people from the lower strata with the business end of a noose at the drop of a hat, so that tends to hamper efforts towards a workers' union -- but even so, there are some pretty significant efforts here and there
If it's anything like I see in America, people who aren't willing to be taken advantage of are seen as weak and not knowing their place.
Gross