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Covid-19 Pushes India’s Middle Class Toward Poverty (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Love pieces like this that pretend that the pandemic single handedly is upheaving the lives of the poor and that the innocent political economic system has nothing to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

yeah the framing is pretty hilarious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

I love it when they slip in a many economists too:

Yet Mr. Modi appears unwilling to repeat last year’s draconian lockdown, which left more than 100 million Indians jobless and which many economists blame for worsening the pandemic’s problems.

They gotta blame both the cure and the disease.