It's been 3 days..
Sonam Wangchuk is untraceable. His wife has not even being given the opportunity to have a phone call with him. No copy of detention order has been given.
No one knows in what condition he is being kept.
The rationale behind the 70 hour work week is "it is necessary for economic development". If you look at East Asia - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China have all developed through extreme hard work, often imposing punitive levels of work on their own people.
These very countries also have such low birth rates now that their governments have to beg people to make babies.
Two questions arise: 1) is such hard work necessary for economic development? 2) is such a development even worth the price of a lonely old age for a large mass of people?
My response to the first question is that it is enough if only a small percentage of the population drive themselves hard. Please note the "drive themselves" - I am in that camp but I am not willing to prescribe this to anyone else. Some percentage of the population will drive themselves hard (may be 2-5%). I believe that is sufficient for broad based economic development, and the rest of us can have decent work life balance. I believe such a balance is needed.
On the second question, no it is not worth it. I don't want India to replicate China's economic success if the price is China's steep demographic decline (which has already started). India is already at replacement level fertility (southern states well below that already) and further declines to East Asian levels won't be good.
I do believe we can develop without needing to work ourselves to demographic suicide.
@Cyberdost recently I have been getting so many unknown calls, person on the other side claiming that I have called them first but I have never called them. Seems like my number is spoofed. Please help.
@drmncrald @RailwaySeva @SrDOM_ALD Sad to see in 2023 also Indian railways are not running on time. It's difficult to rely on train timings in India. Booked a premium tatkal tkt which costs around same as flight ticket but seeing this train getting late by more than 4hr is sad. Will railways compensate for this?
@RailMinIndia@RailwaySeva train no 12815 is running late by 4hours 30 minutes. Thousands of passengers are suffering because of this. Some have medical emergencies, some have connecting trains to their destination. Please look into the matter.
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Train no. 20813, coach B3, B4 has no water since last 4hrs. All the passengers in these coaches are suffering. Kindly resolve this asap.
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