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    murdamcloud
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    As I was reading this piece I began to think about India…or Indonesia and realised that the dark picture that Ashvin is outlining is already true for the vast majority of people on the planet. It could be argued that it always was. My grandfather was a landowner in Bangladesh…by all accounts a ruthless man. He started with nothing and bribed/cajoled/strong-armed his way to being the biggest landlord in the village/district. Big enough that I have met people in Australia who knew the man and had respect (read as fear/envy/hatred/awe) for him. I can only imagine what kind of duress any of his tenants would have been under when making agreements with him. He influenced all the people with access to the traditional levers of power; from political to judicial to ‘law’ enforcement.
    When he died, someone replaced him. The world is changed by unreasonable men, as ever.
    What I’m taking from Ashvin’s piece is that the western world is about to learn what it’s like to live under duress on a grand scale. Something that many have forgotten about for forty or fifty years. Rich and powerful people (on the whole) make the laws and everyone else is forced to follow them; especially when ‘everyone else’ does not realise how strong they really are. Seems we didn’t make poverty history…the wealthy and powerful may be determined to make poor people history instead.

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