Cascading failure of legacies

I get why people want to travel the world - post pictures, celebrate our cricket wins - post pictures, celebrate diwali - post pictures, have a kid - post pictures, play with the kid - post pictures, go to restaurants - post pictures, do anything instagram worthy - post pictures. And the others side as well - do everything here - but dont post pictures - coz they are reserved. Lol.

Dont just get limited to these.

Middle class buying (investing lol?) expensive stuff; most stuff, not the stuff that matters the most.

Isnt everybody doing the same, isn't everyone well off doing the same, aren't superstars doing the same, aren't politicians doing the same, isnt the rest of the world from japan to china to europe to americas - aren't they doing the same.

Yes true.

But lets understand one thing - most of India moved from low level, low skill, low investment, business & farm based economy to digital age directly. We didn't go through the grind of science, maths, industrialisation, operational efficiency, political science & ton more fields - this holds true for almost everyone in India.

So naturally we didn't create digital age as well. Since we never knew what education means to us - we copied (yeah so did china whatever - but think carefully what china copied). We didn't create anything digital you see - from transistors, chips, integrated circuits, any of the storage tech - hdd, ssd, dram, server farms, routers, switches, graphics processing, any open source library & a million other things.

Most Indian CEOs running the show across the world - they didn't create those companies - they are running it - they have rented their house and do renovations once in a while, they haven't gone through bricks, mortar, foundation, stress test, analysing studying and innovating for building the house.

I am talking the best minds of India copying (extremely unflattering), what about the rest of the India - that would be downright abysmal.

Okay now try counting the number of Indian who have produced breakthroughs - in India or abroad. Tell me what is the breakthrough and why was it important and what did it lead to.

Let me start with one (just one for now, I know a few) -

Reverse Osmosis - Dr Srinivasa Sourirajan, University of California

So why did I start this post with what I said - It just makes me sad - this trait we Indians have - no matter where we are in the world - we copy (thats the most we do) and to add a little bit more salt - we copy the wrong things.

I guess everyone would say - I am a businessman doing dhandha (Hindi for business), making my way in the world, feeding my family. No matter what job I do - I am doing business. Worst part is - people doing jobs - they are actually doing business without doing business. Actual businesses innovate they take the world forward with R&D. But anyway lets cascade these failures onto the next generations - thats for them to deal with.