I have always thought that gloomy paintings deserve a ray of sunshine. Problems are many to be sure but there's no disaster round the corner.
> Electricity is still not available to > manufacturing industry, Day was when there was no manufacturing industry to supply electricity to. > most software companies (where outsourcing > and design happens) deploy their own diesel generator sets. When I started my career software companies themselves were few and far between. > The public > transport system in most cities is crumbling given high growth of > migration of people from rural/semi-urban areas to cities looking for > jobs. Perhaps but more people can afford their own conveyance. That increases the load on roads but raods are being built and satellite towns are developing. When I started working in a software company I could not think of buying even a little 50cc scooter. That's not the case today. > The farmers are getting poorer. Farm output is growing slowly but it's growing. Slowly agriculture will be desocialized and become a normal industry. The signs of this happening are already there. And having lived for many years in a farming village I've seen things getting better personally in my village and others. Perhaps the greatest change is that not so many people are completely dependant on agriculture anymore. > I do not know of a single company doing design for export. There are several and can be found on industry websites. And again, the key is not design work for export but design work even local is great. > The government is hardly improving the > infrastructure in any ways Words like hardly are subjective. It is good to have high expectations that are difficult to meet but one should not ignore progress either. Spoken like an Indian perhaps but that's just a specific example I happen to know. I do not see reasons for gloom for the US and other developed countries either. All shades of disaster were predicted before Y2K but we did get though it and <sarcasm> civilization is now scheduled to end at a later date.</sarcasm> Nothing is doomed, nothing is falling apart and I can never forget what Victor Hugo wrote: "Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress." But it does awaken if only one waits up for it. Gautam
