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India didn't miss the industrial revolution by accident. It was deindustrialized on purpose — Dhaka's weavers weren't outcompeted, they were policy-killed. Then we skipped manufacturing entirely and jumped straight to services. Now 90% of 'tech jobs' are BPO and maintenance work — executing someone else's code, answering someone else's customers. The whole education system optimizes for placement, not creation. We don't produce founders, we produce package-chasers. Colonialism exported our cotton. The IT boom exported our engineers. Different era, same drain.
