Limited resources and a huge population means that everyone has to compete very hard to grab those limited medical, engineering, or civil services' admissions that have long been considered to be a ticket to a better life.
That is changing now though. India now is much more bold than it was 20 years ago. More and more young people are taking the unconventional path and creating their own startups. But most of the country still has a long way to go to overcome this problem of high-pressure high-competition culture.
I don't understand why you think overpopulation is not a problem.
If the population of India halved over night, there would be half as many mouths to feed; there would be much less unemployment people could afford to charge higher wages for unskilled jobs (because there would be less competition to drive prices down.) How would that not be an improvement?
Let me ask you, why you think India is overpopulated?
>If the population of India halved over night, there would be half as many mouths to feed; there would be much less unemployment people could afford to charge higher wages for unskilled jobs (because there would be less competition to drive prices down.) How would that not be an improvement?
There will also be less demand for goods, ask those countries which have negative population replacement rate. Where will the demand come from if population halved that means half as much demand for your wheat, rice, and all other necessities.
> Where will the demand come from if population halved that means half as much demand for your wheat, rice, and all other necessities?
How does it matter if there is still enough demand for these goods to be sold out? Remember prices are controlled by the government for basic necessities such as these.
> Let me ask you, why you think India is overpopulated?
How is this relevant to overpopulation being or not being a problem?
>How is this relevant to overpopulation being or not being a problem?
Looking at population density of India, I don't think it's population issue. You mentioned overpopulation in your response to India's problem. I assure you, India can grow as rich as US even at 3 billion population.
India has many problems but population at present in not one of those, maybe it will become a problem if population growth is kept uncheck. But don't blame slow development in past and present to population.
Population being accumulated in few cities is a problem of government and their failure to understand how market works and how they can better it.
None of the political party in India have any viable development plan.
You should look at the population density of Indian cities, not the mean population density all across India. Metros like Mumbai and Kolkata are insanely densely populated. When all the good jobs are in cities like these, overpopulation does become a limiting factor.
A delightful thing I notice in their GitHub page is that Clojure seems to be the second most used language in Walmart Labs.
Seriously, Walmart and Clojure? Who would have imagined! I always thought of Walmart as a boring and traditional company that sells cheap goods. So when I heard about Walmart Labs, I thought all their coding must be in C++ or Java or even Cobol (who knows!).
But to see them using a dialect of Lisp like Clojure and Go more than Java and C++ warms my heart. :-)
Are you serious about these links as examples of nice things that Amazon has open sourced? Most of the projects there are development kits to work with Amazon products only.
Amazon has built a giant business on top of open source technologies. Don't you think it is natural for the open source community to expect that Amazon give something back to them out of courtesy?
The GP asked for a good thing that came out of Walmart Labs hinting at the idea that good things come out from Amazon but not Walmart Labs. Then a few commenters pointed out a few links showing the good things that came out of Walmart Labs. All of these good things happen to be open source. So it is quite natural to ask what good things Amazon bothered to open source after having built a billion dollar business on top of open source.
In the southern parts of the country (Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu), I have seen even the poorer class, auto-drivers, and cab-drivers too speak English fluently. :-)
That is changing now though. India now is much more bold than it was 20 years ago. More and more young people are taking the unconventional path and creating their own startups. But most of the country still has a long way to go to overcome this problem of high-pressure high-competition culture.