Middle class Indian complains about subsidies 

a perfect example of how just engaging in calm conversation can change minds of well-intentioned but uninformed people

He is talking about the Delhi government. But the fact is that freebies or subsidies cost only less than 4% of the total budget.

A person earning 1 lakh per month in India in 2023 is not middle class.

Wow Vimoh perfectly conducts the conversation/debate without making a single insulting comment or moment on the other person when there is a disagreement. That's class man

Perfect example of, “They muddy the water to make it seem deep”

Excellent example of well-researched, rational arguments can patiently, calmly demolish prejudices, misled, opinions.

The question Ashish asked is correct. Middle class people are getting very little in return compared what we are paying. To state a few examples : 1. Quality of Roads. Because of potholes on roads thousands of accidents happening in India stats are saying. 2. Education and Health care are very costly. Atleast from the past decade schemes like Arogya Sri/Arogya Yojana or something came up. Initiated in Andhra state, later adopted by Central government. But before that there is no aid for poor people at all. If you are poor and sick, you are dead. Your Family members can say good bye to you. 3. Police, justice system. We know how poorly they work. There are lakhs of unsolved cases they say. And how powerful people can influence them. An mla or mp or a person from some political party. How easy can they influence a party. On the other hand hundreds of vacancies not filling up in police and courts. 🤷‍♂️ Just because if they can delay those vacancies, the politicians can spend the money in the budget else where where they get votes. 🤷‍♂️ 4. Transportation In most of the major cities in the west. All the ways of transportation are under government, and goes hand in hand with each other. For example I lIve in Hyderabad, and if I want to travel from Point A to Point B in public transport. Then I have to walk for 300 metres to reach a bus stop, take a bus to the metro, Take the metro to reach nearest metro to Point B, Again on reaching the Destination Metro I have to walk another 300 metres. All this takes more time than riding a bike. And all this system ends at 10 - 12pm. (Most of the cities) After 10pm. You find no busses. 🤷‍♂️ Your die - you die. 😄 How is public transport helping me ! Rather I ride a bike. Even though I want to fight climate change and stuff. I cannot. Just because it's not accessible to me. In London on the other hand. All the public transport have the common ticketing system. I don't have to take one ticket for bus, another for metro, and another for bus after that. And also for most of the places in London, some form of public transport will be available in around 150 metres. (Or 200 I don't remember the exact number correct.) And some politicians when mentioning about metro cities wonder why traffic is increasing in those cities. 🤷‍♂️ Conclusion/Question: All this boils down to money. The Money is not being spent on health, education, roads, law and order, transportation. Where is it being spent ! Some of it is being looted in curruption. Some of it in irrational welfare schemes. (Underline irrational please.) Irrational in the sense giving more than they need, And to more people than needed. I am not blaming the people who are taking such social welfare schemes. From decades it's been the case that who ever comes to power, it's of no use to public. They thought anyway those politicians are doing scams, why should we sit at home. So, let's take money for election, And take some freebies. 🤷‍♂️ Why miss the opportunity. 😅 From there it's a viscious cycle.

This was a good conversation. I can see how the Ashish meant well, because a lot of us think this way and our anger/understanding get misdirected at people who seem to be getting more than us. But the reality is, it's the people we don't see on our day to day lives, the rich folks, who we really need to think about. I hope Ashish will feel encouraged to find out more about this by reading works of economists working on Indian tax. Great video, once again!

More than the subsidies, everyday I encounter the "general quota'' peeps talks about how reservation is the cause of intellectual drain of the country and how the nation would suffer bcoz of it. @vimoh any advice on how to approach this retort of theirs?

Bhaiya how do we view your live? Is this RU-vid live or in some other app?

Agree with Ashish here.Sorry Vimoh

How can one get on a call with you

Ashish is simply lacking perspective here.

But do you think bringing back pensions to government employees is a good thing?

Ashish went to a state funded university for a bachelors degree and talks about subsidies

He is saying poors getting subsidy for electricity, LPG, water (except edu and health) are not important, they are getting it free when middle class pays the tax and poor don't and It is wrong. He is saying it slowly and politely.

When you try to sound progressive but doesn’t actually belive in it . Ans you end up saying all sort nonsense, incoherent stuff 😅