Rants of Raju
Since the cost of living keeps on rising for the services you get, which you had before but now are just wrapped into a capitalist market, people at the bottom suffer the most even for basic necessities, access to which should have been included in their right to live.
The pathways which decide the mobility of a person from lower income to higher one are capital, education and connections
The people at the bottom have less capital so that's out of our consideration. And since they have less capital the accessibility of quality education becomes rare, as according to this market those who have money have more right on the education compared to those who are born into poor families. Third is connections, this market prioritises "productively" which is basically labour for payment, how much money you can earn becomes a category to judge people, and no one wants to sit or get connected with people who are less productive as it hampers their rep. And their mindset.
So the mobility is minimal, here comes reservation, which only favours the top one percent of the categories who get reservations. Basically people who are elites among them. Which gives rise to the debates over increasing these reservations.
While reservation is not the solution as it can't think of every person who is under the bottom line. What can be done is
1.) abolition of inherited wealth which will make every individual stand for themselves and
2.) making quality education free and accessible to everyone which will make the mobility more possible for those who are born into the lower class families.
These too things will make the society more meritorious than what we have now.
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