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> I remembered growing up with a the children of a customs officer. Every now and then he would show up with boxes of confiscated pirated movie / game days discs, asking us to pick what we wanted before he was going to return the rest of lot to presumably be ‘destroyed’.

At this point I'm pretty convinced a lot of Indian institutions are just cargo culting things they saw in the west. [0]

Can you imagine how better and more productive Indian society would be if some of these bureaucracies were just abolished? Superpower by 2030?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

[Solvency]

You linking to a definition of cargo cult (which everyone already knows) does nothing to substantiate your notion that Indians are merely cargo culting the west by having customs officers.

[codetrotter]

> everyone already knows

https://xkcd.com/1053/