- Jan 24, 2024
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Apparel is a labor-oriented industry largely. It does not require high skill and next level of technological knowledge and evolved education systems and research facilities.
Low skill value addition is how you utilize and give jobs to your underclass so they can eat and clothe themselves for a change, which is barely possible in India.
What India has is trickle down (and mostly unequitable) development. Backoffice cannot feed the poor. It feeds middle and upper middle class people disproportionately.
What Bangladesh has is bottom up development starting with semi-skilled people. Apparel worker's kids are getting masters degrees and will come up in society. This has not and will not happen in India.
90% of the subcontinent's people are poor people. Asking them to code something is pointless.
They need to operate sewing machines or learn to weld or make motors. Those are sustainable livelihoods for the majority of people in our countries.