Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
Edit: I don&#x27;t care about karma on HN but if you&#x27;re downvoting please explain yourself.<p><pre><code>  &gt; The Indian ID drive has ensured that benefits make it to the people who need
  &gt; them without 80% of it being skimmed by corrupt bureaucrats.
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Citation ? (not about the corruption happening, that has been well established, but about aadhaar allegedly solving this problem).<p><pre><code>  &gt; Having a real identification gives very poor individuals the identification
  &gt; necessary to open bank accounts and interact with the financial sector.
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There already are a pletora of identification methods in India, including the PAN, ration card, BPL Card, Voter ID etc. In the end the problems that keep it from being &#x27;unique&#x27; are in the implementation at the grass roots. How is Aadhaar going to change this ? There already are a lot of reports of duplication of Aadhaar.<p><pre><code>  &gt; It&#x27;s the first really reliable census data for a lot of areas.
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Reliable ? Oh really ? According to the <i>goverment&#x27;s own addmission</i> :<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aadhaarcarduid.org&#x2F;uidai-cancelled-3-8-lakh-fake-aadhaar-cards&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aadhaarcarduid.org&#x2F;uidai-cancelled-3-8-lakh-fake-aadh...</a><p><pre><code>  &gt; It&#x27;s disgusting that Mozilla sits there and pontificates about stopping
  &gt; programs which solve problems _they don&#x27;t have_. In 50 years, when a couple
  &gt; hundred million Indians aren&#x27;t having trouble getting enough to eat because
  &gt; their government subsidies were stolen, then maybe it&#x27;s worth having this
  &gt; conversation. Until then, shut up and and let India solve its own problems,
  &gt; and don&#x27;t help people starve to death on account of your pompous moral
  &gt; litmus tests.
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Firstly, the Indian goverment is not even interested in debating or engaing
people who have a different viewpoint than them, including the Superme Court of
India. So, tell me again, which is this India you speak about that is allegedly
soloving its problems ? I feel like Indians like me are lesser Indians than thos
that toe the Goverment line.<p>I often think about this when it comes to Indians reacting to critizims about
India:<p>Except from the book &quot;Restart&quot;[1]<p><pre><code>  &gt; Then the denial, the one form of intellectual argument we have mastered.
  &gt; India has no problem; if it has a problem, it is nobody else’s business;
  &gt; everybody else also has this problem; everybody else has other problems, why
  &gt; don’t you talk about those instead; why are you saying this is a problem, it is
  &gt; a part of our 5000-year- old culture; we knew the answers to all problems in
  &gt; the Vedic era; even if we have this problem, it is not our fault; even if we
  &gt; have this problem, we cannot accept any of the solutions that have been shown
  &gt; to work elsewhere; even if we have this problem, it is much better than it was;
  &gt; perhaps we have this problem, but it is none of your business.
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