RoaringTigerHiddenDragon
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But GDP is defined as material consumption. And developed nation means all citizens have access to all basic services including education and health. In the western world, a multi millionaire and a regular person pretty much have access to the same resources like water, electricity, health, transport, university education etc. I think if we can get to this level of basic equality first, then we can consider ourselves a Bit developed. Then people who like taking risks need to come up with big ideas that generate huge employment and wealth. People need to aspire to travel to space, spend summers in Greek islands, run bitcoin mining in their basement, become big landlords, spend on beauty products, dining out, designer clothes, expensive art, a lot of energy consuming home appliances ( TV in multiple rooms, central A/C for homes, high end kitchen appliances etc), own multiple cars, luxury boats etc to drive much higher GDP. When we are upper middle income around 2030-31, basics would have been largely taken care of except in very remote locations at least in all properly governed states. Then the next 15-20 years, Indian must export massively and middle class and rich have to splurge to get the GDP to comfortable upper income territory. No idea if this phase will actually happen or our growth slows in the 2030s and we too get stuck like china has.I partly agree with you. But in broader sense everything is possible only when you burn "ENERGY". We don't have any opportunity to burn ENERGY like Western countries who once plundered across continents "CONSISTENTLY FOR CENTURIEs", not do we have purchasing power to "BRUTE FORCE IN A BURST" or Speed Run Energy Consumption like Chink Cockroaches. The only thing that can save our asses is Nuclear Energy for which the mf are taking so long time. All the things you said is possible only when Nation(which i see as an organism) can generate self-sufficient energy. You don't need perpetual consumption of Material things(Unlike Energy where stopping burning means decline) to increase your economy. Your statement on people consuming much more is natural afterall who doesn't consume shit, but going it extreme materialistic way like South Korea is pretty harmful and will break societies.