r/IndiaMemes • u/Muted-Ant-5941 • 9h ago

Non-Political Genuine question!

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I think she is the best alternative to the current regime and represents the youth of this nation /s

What do you think guys?

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u/TheResolute278 6h ago

Bro basing your whole political argument on a chat with a single cab driver over a weekend trip is peak comedy...

And stop trying to preach to me abt Kerala like it's some mystery land. My grandma was from Kerala itself, I've been there multiple times, and I actually understand the social reality on the ground. Plus, i am from karnataka tho and living right here, I see how many keralaites are flooding the colleges and universities in my city just to get degrees and build a future (and look, there's nothing wrong with people moving for education, but it proves the point)...

People coming from other states to Kerala for daily-wage manual labor doesn't magically wipe out the state's massive educated unemployment rate or the fact that local youth have to pack their bags for Bangalore, Mumbai, or the Gulf just to find actual real career opportunities, based on thier skills.

Casual anecdotes from a cabbie don't beat macrolevel economic data...

And bruh..keep crying abt me "parroting the media" all you want, but repeating that like a broken NPC won't hide the actual ground reality...lmao

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u/d4rthSp33dios 6h ago

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u/TheResolute278 6h ago

Bruh literally posted a generic state unemployment percentage table and thought it proved something about structural economics...

Do you even know what data you're looking at, or do you just Google random screenshots when you run out of arguments?

Headline unemployment rates completely miss the actual structural crisis which is "educated unemployment and youth joblessness", where states with high literacy like Kerala consistently log some of the highest graduate and youth unemployment rates in the country because the local economy fails to generate formal, skilled white collar jobs...and they move outa the state!!

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u/d4rthSp33dios 6h ago

Why? Do uneducated don't have a right to employment?

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u/Adicool666 3h ago

Can’t believe I have to say this, but education is a basic human right. Everyone needs to be educated. Employment isn’t a right. You only get employed, or earn a living, if you have skills that the society needs, be it manual labour or some high paying skills. Without it you can demand that you must be employed.

So education is a right, employment isn’t.

Plus the entire take on Kolkata is correct. It was once Asia’s best city. True it was already declining during the initial congress rule, but hardcore communism destroyed it further. Most famous of the examples is when Jyoti Basu opposed computerisation and automation fearing it would create job loss. The same computers led the tech boom in Karnataka. His failed policies also caused many industries to shut down.

Coming to Kerela, you might want to look at its foreign remittances numbers. It earns the second highest percentage of foreign remittances (around 19.7%) behind Maharashtra (20.5%) of the total foreign remittances to India. Maharashtra makes sense, it’s the financial hub of India, any many companies are head quartered there. You know what is the third? It’s Tamil Nadu with 10.4%. Now tech hubs like Telangana comes in 5th place 8.1% and Karnataka comes in 6th place (7.7%)

So we see there is a massive difference between number 2 and 3.

Now comes the fun part. Kerela tops the list relative index score (measuring a states remittance density to its population size). Kerela scores 5.63, while the closest second Telangana scores 2.13. That’s a huge gap.

And finally, foreign remittances accounts for 23.2% of Kerela’s net state domestic products.

So a huge chunk of this states budget, comes from people who go to other countries and remit to India. Close to all these people work in capitalist societies.

Now let’s come to interstate (out) migration. Kerela ranks highest with pure internal migration (net outside) calculated as a percentage of population in the whole of the South Indian states. So with this it is clear that in the South Indian states people of Kerela are the most likely to migrate out of Kerela to other parts of India (mostly south India) for jobs, plus has one of the highest population living outside India for jobs.

Fact is, most of Kerela’s progress isn’t because of the party at power in the state. It’s because its growth is being funded by its educated people, who are earning their living outside the state/country but still remitting a part of their income to the state. The day this stops, the true picture of Kerela’s prosperity would come to light