In re: The fundamental dishonesty of political parties and many influential people which is going to lead to different levels of Civil War among other horrible outcomes.

India's future is at great risk because of political parties and many influential people refusing to be honest with students and other young people. The reality is that almost everyone who is a student today is going to be underemployed soon. Many if not most of them are going to be unemployed. Most of those who manage to get into permanent government jobs are going to be useless people drawing salaries and thereafter pensions.

Money which should be spent on expanding direct tax benefits and other forms of welfare is going to continue to be spent on filling artificial vacancies, funding mostly useless higher education and increasingly obsolete skills in this era of Artificial Intelligence and Automation.

This is going to lead to a situation where many supposedly educated and supposedly skilled people will turn to crime. There will be class wars and new forms of nationalism. This will be in addition to social strife which is in any case increasing on account of groups that are adversarial and increasingly adversarial to each other. Add to that, external military as well as economic threats.

The only way out of this is to be honest with young people, to tell them to take up whatever jobs are available while they are and to increase welfare spending to ensure that as many people as possible lead better lifestyles.

India has to move towards ensuring Universal Basic Income. Any other approach will lead to different levels of Civil War among other horrible outcomes.

Be warned.

Anyway, since hardly anyone, if anyone, who matters is going to listen to me, let ‘Va-kan-cees’ be filled and let dreams continue to be sold to the ‘Aaj Ke Bacche jo bahut In-te-LI-GENT hai’.

Enjoy.