Translation: “We can’t have it how I want it because you fucking people don’t want that”
A little context, he is the previous CEO of NITI Aayog, the “company” in question.
Niti aayog is a government owned think tank/ company whose purpose it is to do bring and do feasibility studies of possible government policies. The person is a civil servant and this was his previous job.
The company isn’t a multi-billion dollar company, it’s basically the government, that too under the bureaucratic wing of the government.
“…our nation has too much democracy…”
Our billionaires have too much oxygen.
Reforms are easier to pass in autocracy, but those are not the kind of reforms one would want.
UK as an example, tories have gutted what democracy was there, now you can’t swim in the water and go to prison for 10 years if you’re deemed a nuisance
People like him can only see the world through a forest of dollar signs. Dont trust the blindness
This is just “The best government is a benevolent autocracy” without the second half, which is “the next best government is democracy”. And the unsaid part of the saying is “The worst government is a malicious autocracy”, which is an eventual certainty.
Democracy has it’s problems, but it’s better than anything else we can realistically implement.
Yeah. Because corpos like this as get a say by voting with dollars.
Which really translates to bribes
Not dollars, rupees.
We are all rupee-billionaires on this blessed day.
That’s a phrase I’ve never heard before: “too much of democracy”.
It’s wild to have that much money and not be able to afford a history book.
Since when is Amitabh Kant a billionaire?
He was an IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer and CEO of a think-tank.
Since when is Amitabh Kant a billionaire?
Maybe depending on the currency?
I mean he’s got a point it’s just a stupid point.
The article you linked actually confirms it isnt out of context. Its just a politician lying to save face.
From the article:
Kant’s statements and the context can be heard in the full video. It is not clear what prompted the publications to delete their stories or change the headlines when a video of the interview is available and what he said was quoted verbatim.
