Comments by "AnAn" (@AnAn___) on "Ride with Gabi" channel.

Many people make it. Slum residents are often immigrants from poorer areas. They use the savings on rent to work like heck on academics, busines and career and a large percentage make it. Poor people are often very self confidence and have a great inner fire.
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Most of them might be immigrants from the poorer parts of India who came to Mumbai to make their own fortunes. And many of them will probably become tomorrow's elite, middle class, upper middle class and rich. Note that slums such as Dharavi are technically squatters living on property owned by others. While the British courts and their successor courts post 1947 have delayed evicting squatters from these lands; at some point the courts could order their eviction and the return of this land to their legal owners. And as India's economy continues to grow very fast, this day MAY come soon. This is why many families and girls may not want to move here. When the residents of these slums are evicted, the cost of small unit housing in India's boom towns is likely to exponentially rocket higher. This will be a very painful gentrification and transition.
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Why not. Most of India is very beautiful.
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Technically Dharavi's land is owned by private holders. The majority of people living in Dharavi are legally considered to be squatters on privately held property, The courts are choosing not to evict people from Dharavi and return Dharavi to her rightful legal owners because the courts fear that doing so would exponentially increase the cost of small unit housing rentals in greater Mumbai. And the courts are right to believe this. Do you think slums should be built in most of the world's affluent areas? Slums mean low cost small unit rentals. The English imperialists imposed socialism on India at the point of a gun to make India very poor. Unwinding this English socialism and allowing private property owners to reclaim and use their property is a very difficult painful process and will take many generations.
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I think this shows India in a positive light. Many of these are immigrants from poorer parts of India moving to Mumbai to make their own fortune. And many of them will soon become very successful. This shows how hard working, hard studying, upwardly mobile and excellent many Indian poor are.
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How do you think India has become the world's fastest growing economy among large and medium sized economies? In part by a massive push into tech. This massive push into tech has resulted in the fastest reduction in poverty the world has ever seen. And has funded a massive increase in social spending. Rapid growth reduces poverty. Without rapid growth, how can the poor make rapid economic progress? How can poor people receive social services?
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Absolutely adored this beautiful video. First time I have seen your channel. I am a subscriber now. Please keep doing beautiful videos like this. Where are you going next?
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India's birth rate has collapsed, and India desperately needs more births to avoid a rapidly aging population.
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@Amit-pm3yw India is the world's fastest growing economy among large and medium sized economies with the fastest reduction in poverty the world has ever seen. Many of the people in this slum are tomorrow global elite, middle class, upper middle class and rich. As we speak, most of India's slums are gentrifying and fading away. As slums gentrify, low cost rentals and housing near economically booming areas disappear. The world needs a lot more slums (low cost small unit rentals and housing near economically prosperous areas.)
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@Amit-pm3yw Isn't that what is happening in practice though? Aren't the children and grandchildren of India's poor joining the elite, middle class, upper middle class and rich in large numbers?
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@Amit-pm3yw Statistically, this is not correct. India has about the same Gini coefficient as the UK and many European countries. In fact, that is one of India's problems. If India had 20 times as many US dollar millionaires, the Indian poor would greatly benefit. India should let inequality rip the way China has (China is much more unequal than India.) This would enable India to attract many tens of millions of talented NRIs and immigrants. India would excel in tech, finance, consulting, business and academics. India's phobia about inequality is holding India back, sharply lowering Indian real GDP growth, and greatly hurting the Indian poor. India should let English imperialist imposed socialism go and return to capitalism and globalism.
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@Amit-pm3yw We are already seeing many immigrants in the tech areas such as Bangalore. This should be expanded nationwide. But this means more free market neo-liberal reforms and allowing Indian inequality to rip upwards since NRIs and talented immigrants would be paid internationally competitive compensation which are multiples of India's current income structure. This surge in positive income inequality as large numbers of NRIs and non NRI talented immigrants move to India would dramatically empower the Indian poor.
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@ridhamatri9447 True. What is your per capita real GDP growth forecast for India over the next one decade? Two decades?
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Please explain further.
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Because much of Dharavi consists of squatters on property owned by someone else. For generations the courts have delayed evicting squatters from Dharavi. But perhaps they will eventually deport squatters from Dharavi. The cost of small unit rentals in Mumbai outside of Dharavi is very expensive.
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If you go again, you will see an exponential improvement across the board. Quality food is available everywhere. You need to use your intelligence to find it. Please go back and see the difference.
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The people in this slum in the main are immigrants from poorer parts of India moving close to the economic boom town of Bombay to make their own fortune. Many of them are tomorrow's elite, middle class, upper middle class and rich. They are the talent that makes countries rich and prosperous. They are the talent the world desperately needs and is aggressively competing for. Slum = small unit low cost rental and housing in economically prosperous areas.
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@ginathacker6207 Agree. Absolutely adored this video. The heroes were the people of Dharavi.
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Why do you think this? India's nonmuslim population is shrinking. India's birth rate is collapsing. And will collapse for muslims too once Uniform Civil Code is implemented, increasing the legal marriage at to 21 years old. The British created slums by imposing socialism on India. And by not enforcing property rights. Technically most slums such as this one are squatters on land owned by someone else. Courts have temporarily delayed evicting squatters because of how that would exponentially increase small unit rental costs in Mumbai and other booming Indian cities.
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Isn't low birth rates a vastly bigger problem than overpopulation?
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Isn't India seeing the fastest reduction in poverty the world has ever seen? How would you do things differently? What is wrong with India becoming the world's largest economy within a generation? How is that bowing to anyone else's interests?
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Why are the Filipino slums not as productive?
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@SakunMadik I think slums are often centers of entrepreneurship, creativity, product development, education and vibrancy in the Philippines, India and asia more generally. How can American slums to transformed into similar bastions of innovation?
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Beware what you wish for. These "slums" are legal limbo areas. Inheritances of British imposed socialism. [The English forced India to be socialist to make India poor.] The courts have for generations delayed evicting squatters from privately held property in Dharavi to prevent small unit rental costs in Mumbai from exponentially increasing. Many people in this slum are studying and working their butts off and using their savings from lower rental costs to become tomorrow's elite, middle class, upper middle class and rich. Why would you want to take this ladder of economic opportunity away from them?
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Not exactly. They live right next to Mumbai, one of the economic miracles of the world. They are working very hard to join the elite, middle class, upper middle class and rich. And many of them will make it. Poor people often have a lot of self confidence and inner fire. Plus, many are aware of how the world is rapidly evolving.
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Why would someone think that poverty breeds viciousness? Today's poor are tomorrow's elite, middle class, upper middle class and rich. Today's poor are the crucible and churn developing tomorrow's talent. The crucible that is making the human race better, moving the human race forward. A very large percentage of the poor make it.
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