There is nothing like a global pandemic to highlight the systematic flaws in a government. This invisible enemy has locked us up in our homes with no indication as to when we may return to the world. It has left many penniless, stranded, and afraid. 1/n

In times like these, every eye in the country is trained towards the members of parliament. Their every move is being monitored by the entirety of the nation with hawklike attention as they wait for answers. Every faction of our society needs solutions .2/n

The working and the unemployed; the young and the elderly; the blessed and the damned (edit: the hopeful and the fatalistic) - all fighting a different war. 3/n

However there is no greater divide in India than the one in the rich and the poor. In times of peace they work in harmony. The rich supply the jobs , the poor provide the labour - each recieves their own share. The wheel of the economy turns as it has for hundreds of years. 4/n

Our economy is like the classic chicken and egg problem. A chicken gives birth to an egg and that egg produces another chicken and so on and so forth. 5/n

It does not matter whether the chicken came first or the egg, what matters is that the chain remains unbroken. When the rich and poor work in harmony, there are enough chickens and eggs to go around. 6/n

What COV-19 has done is seperate our chicken and egg indeterminately. Without its mother the egg will die, and until the chicken is released it can produce no more eggs. The problem govt had was who to save - the chickens (the priviledged class) or the eggs (the impoverished) 7/n

This problem reached its climax during the evacuation of NRIs. Stranded Indians were brought home free of charge whilst underfunded migrant workers were left to beg in the streets and pay for their tickets back home . 8/n

There began the public outrage - the government had sided with the rich. Why should they recieve assistance when they do not work for the country, vote or anything of the sort that could justify this outpour of aid. 9/n

But this view is oversimplified. The NRIs pump much needed dollars and pounds into our national economy. Without their funds no relief money could be arranged for the poor and recently unemployed. 10/n

For a developing economy like ours, that money os paramount. So the government needed to send a message: ' India cares about you dear NRIs, please continue to care about India. 11/n

Keep funelling cash to your underfunded families, keep donating to our causes, keep depositing your cash in our banks. While the country you moved to would happily leave you to die on the streets, we will be here to save you so long as you continue to save us'. 12/n

People with this view also point to the PM cares fund and the money and food being donated to underprivileged families. If we follow this line of thinking it seems that evacuating these people was an investment. 13/n

It is the samw as befriending the smartest student in class in order to borrow their notes or copy their homework.

But every coin has two sides. Many would argue that instead of buttering up the wealthy, they should have held them accountable for their employees. 14/n

Before the pandemic these 'impoverished' members of society were paid workers. Employed, respectable and equal contributors to the nation and its economy. Because of the lockdown they have been reduced to beggars, living off of relief funds and government money. 15/n

They havent even been given the means to return to their villages to find work as field hands or essential workers. This school of thought insists that these mutimillipn dollar corporations take accountablity of their workers. 16/n

The goverment should demand that employers suffer minor losses for the next few months in order to pay their employees. 17/n

But, as you may have guessed, this is easier said than done. The biggest allure of a capitalist economy like ours is the free market and privatisation of business. The freedom to conduct their business as they please. 18/n

The goverment could not force these private enterprises to change without incurring the wrath of the people. They would be accused of propaganda, communism, violation of freedoms and much more. 19/n

So is it that surprising that the government took the easy way out? After all it is easier to water a fruit bearing tree than to nurture the seed that has yet to sprout?
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All hope is not lost, however. In the discussion of the fiscal classes, we have neglected the most important of them all. The class that falls into neither of the categories, the class that is most overlooked, the class that reads articles such as this one. 21/n

You, DEAR READER, are the key to this country's economy. The middle class is shrinking every day and it is our job to stop it. Decrease the parity between the two extremes of our country by helping the poor rise up and demanding the rich be brought back down to earth. 22/n

You can pressure companies into ethical business practices. The consumer is the company's judge, jury, and executioner - so lay out your terms before them. Raise your concerns, spread the word, persecute . The government cannot tell a company to change, the market can. 23/n

Goverments are voices of the people, so make yourself heard. Demand evacuation for the stranded not only abroad but within our country. Mandate free travel by inundating your local representatives, insist these people be allowed to go home. 24/n

The middle class undertands both rich and poor. All rich families were once middle class, all middle class families were once poor. In a world of chicken and egg, the middle class is the rooster. They provide the environment for both chicken and egg to survive and thrive.
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Make them know that we as a society will not tolerate injustice to our poor masses. Boycott those companies who were culprits . That's when we as a Middle class can claim our rightfull space.

And when the rooster caws, everyone shall rise. END (written by My Daughter ISHITA)