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Comment by swarnie_ | Hacker News Reader

A good chunk of the world has shifted that way since 2000, its actually baffling.

Maybe because social media helps demagogues spread their message?

I don't think demagogues ever needed social media to spread their messages

"Thank" 9/11 for that one. The reactions to this attack was the first crack in the dam of human rights, and unscrupulous/authoritarian politicians dismantled it until unrecognizability over the last decades.

I suggest you become unbaffled. Knowing the reasons why will help everyone have better lives and help revert things.

On one hand being baffled may be a symptom of not seeing certain things and on the other it maybe a reaction to seeing things and feeling powerless.

I would caution against simple answers to things though. Me right, them wrong is never a useful explanation.

It turns out that not everyone appreciates being turned into an economic client state of the US. Nationalism is a direct reaction meant to (whether effective or not) reaffirm sovreignty.

Uhh what? How is the US buying goods/services from India infringing on their sovereignty?

Don't worry too much, most Indians i meet online don't like my country either.

Shipping India's able-bodied workforce to the US and driving the rest of the local economy with low-wage factory jobs absolutely hampers a country's ability to govern and develop itself. The threat of pulling manufacturing out of a country becomes too great and forces governments to bend to the will of foreign investment.

>Shipping India's able-bodied workforce to the US [...]

I wonder why the blame is on the US or American companies, which offer better working conditions and pay, rather than Indian companies for not being competitive enough, or the expats for "defecting" from their home country.

Because the laws and treaties that enable it were enacted by the US government.

And what about the laws and treaties that enable enacted by the indian government? If they wanted to they could do what the soviet union did and impose borders controls to prevent indian engineers from escaping india.

That's when your US-based firms step in and say "stop or we're tanking your economy".

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