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Now, today on the podcast, I'm going to talk about ascending and descending nations when I came from India to America in 1978. India was stagnant and America was it.

But now it seems like India is an ascending nation and America a descending nation. I'll talk about whether those kinds of trends can be reversed.

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Normally on the podcast, I tend to zoom into carn events, what happened in the news just now or yesterday. But sometimes it's good to step back a little bit and try to get the larger picture, the sort of 10,000-foot view, if you will.

And I'm watching a very interesting skirmish playing out on social media that raises this kind of a larger issue.

So you got a guy, he's called a last contrarium on Twitter and he's been posting photos of India versus the United States. Obviously catches my interest to someone who came from India to America in the late 1970s.

And this guy makes the point. He goes, listen, most westerners think of India as a kind of backward slum dog, millionaire, begging bowl of the world type of country. But he goes, you don't realize what India looks like now.

And he posts all these pictures of how clean the airports are, how efficient and modern the trains look, the huge skyscrapers that make even New York to some degree start looking a little bit old and run down.

And he then makes the point, which is that India is an ascending society. And he says, just part of the ascending world, whereas America is part of the descending world. And he implies that westerners are kind of in denial that they are in, you may say, on the downward slope.

Now, a couple of Indians weigh in on this and kind of reinforce what he's saying. And one guy says that if you compare the Indian city of Kanpur, it launched a new metro rail system, which had built in two years.

And he says contrast this with San Francisco, which has spent $300 million and literally decades to build a metro system. And it's still not finished. So the efficiency is the point here.

And then this Indian guy, biology, Shrinivasan makes the point he says, you know, if you told me, even 20 years ago that Indian cities would look better than American cities or live better, you can actually have a more livable life in them. He says, I would have thought you were out of your mind.

And he says, but today Chennai, previously, Madras, he says Chennai is better than San Francisco. It looks better. It's cleaner. The infrastructure is better. It's a more livable city.

And he says that Indian airports today are better than American airports, particularly these older non-referbished ones. And then, of course, against this comes a kind of wall of pushback.

And you've got one guy saying, you know, this is ridiculous. I lived in India. India is a basket case. And another guy goes, you know, you've talked about Chennai and Chennai, like Mangalore has been a somewhat planned city. He goes, now do Mumbai, which of course, has massive parts of it that are absolute chaos.

This one guy says, the infrastructure in India is nowhere close to the US. India is at least 50 years behind. Now, how do you resolve this dispute? Who's right? I think actually both parties are right, but they're talking past each other.

Let me give it an analogy to say what I mean. Think about being on an escalator. And there are two escalators side by side. And one is going up, and the other is going down. Now, you see a guy on the escalator, and he's higher up.

And this is the being 50 years or 20 years ahead. And the other guy on the escalator is down closer to the to the bottom. But the escalators are moving in opposite direction. So one escalator is going up, and the guy who's lower down is coming up, and the guy who's further up is going down.

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