One of the problems in the world is when people specialised in one field start pontificating about another, of which they have little knowledge or understanding.
One of such persons is Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Inc, who in an interview in 2014 to Indian journalist Vikram Chandra said that there will be very few poor countries in 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgaBSefG7qQ&t=207s&pp=ygUTYmlsbCBnYXRlcyAyMCB5ZWFycw%3D%3D
Bill Gates is no doubt an expert in computers, but he has little, if any, knowledge of how historical transformations take place in human society.
I have explained in detail in the videos and articles below, that developed countries will oppose tooth and nail any attempt by underdeveloped countries to become fully developed, like North America or Europe. This is because if underdeveloped countries become fully developed then with their cheap labour they will make the products of industries of the developed countries uncompetitive, leading to collapse of the latter, throwing millions out of employment. This has been explained below :
https://countercurrents.org/…/india-shall-lead-the…/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmoDYaAIbNI&t=160s…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7DGP9thdw…
https://www.theweek.in/…/opinion-how-to-outwit…
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-on-dr…/
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-the…/
https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=1045266803636376&id=100044591972168
No doubt after Independence in 1947 there was a certain degree of industrialisation in India ( steel mills etc were set up and IITs created ), but full industrialisation, as in North America and Europe, was not permitted by the developed countries, which still retained a hold on India and other underdeveloped countries by various means.
The interest of developed countries is to keep underdeveloped countries backward, and therefore poor.
But it is in the interest of India and other underdeveloped countries to rapidly industrialise and become modern industrial giants, like China, for only then can we abolish our massive poverty, massive unemployment, appalling level of child malnutrition ( every second Indian child is malnourished, according to Global Hunger Index ), skyrocketing prices of essential commodities like food, fuel and medicines, almost total lack of proper healthcare and good education for our masses ( 57% Indian women are anaemic ), etc
Therefore the interest of developed countries directly conflicts with the interest of underdeveloped ones, and this contradiction can only be resolved by peoples’ revolutions in the underdeveloped countries.
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-the-coming-great-revolution-in-india/
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-a-call-to-indian-patriots/
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-the-portents-of-a-coming-revolution/
It is said by some that India has the fastest growing economy in the world, that our GDP is growing etc
https://indicanews.com/moodys-increases-indias-gdp-growth-forecast-to-7-2-for-2024/
But here is the truth :
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics-in-india/
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-the-truth-behind-indias-explosive-gdp-growth/
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-there-are-two-indias-in-india/
Bill Gates has said that India has improved in healthcare. So let me enlighten him. There are no doubt some excellent hospitals in our big cities like Apollo, Max, Fortis, Medanta, Jaypee, etc but these are frightfully expensive, and unaffordable to our poor people. So the latter often take recourse to quacks, and indeed quackery has increased by leaps and bounds in India.
Yes, underdeveloped countries can become developed ones, and thereby abolish poverty etc in 20 years, as Bill Gates predicts, but that can only be through historical revolutions. Of this Bill Gates has no understanding
