The government fucked with three elections, the youth didn't care. They jailed our sole Nobel Prize Winner who helped millions, the youth didn't care. But making it harder to get a public sector job where you get to be a tax funded parasite, this is what motivated the youth.
BTW I am against the government. I am pro the right of the citizen to protest. But the fact that our countrymen care more about government handouts than freedom, rule of law and democracy should really make you pessimistic about the future of the nation.
You don't think this event will influence every subsequent administration that might want to through with privatisation and/or other civil service reforms.
Governments pursue tough reforms when they have to. If a future government needs to privatise or reform the civil service because of a fiscal crisis, they will not stop because of events in 2024.
Liberal reforms benefit many, but over the long term and benefits are not immediately visible. But any reform has losers -- usually powerful vested interests -- with visible, immediate losses. So the losers' coalition blocks reform. This dynamics has been well understood since the 1950s.
Reforms in response to a fiscal crisis won't stick. You can see the case of Egypt and Pakistan who keep going through structural IMF reforms every few years. India reformed because of a change in ideology, the 1991 crisis was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
The government fucked with three elections, the youth didn't care. They jailed our sole Nobel Prize Winner who helped millions, the youth didn't care. But making it harder to get a public sector job where you get to be a tax funded parasite, this is what motivated the youth.
BTW I am against the government. I am pro the right of the citizen to protest. But the fact that our countrymen care more about government handouts than freedom, rule of law and democracy should really make you pessimistic about the future of the nation.
As noted elsewhere, the original protests were just the spark.
You don't think this event will influence every subsequent administration that might want to through with privatisation and/or other civil service reforms.
Governments pursue tough reforms when they have to. If a future government needs to privatise or reform the civil service because of a fiscal crisis, they will not stop because of events in 2024.
Also why the hell will you wait until a fiscal crisis before taking on liberal reforms?
Liberal reforms benefit many, but over the long term and benefits are not immediately visible. But any reform has losers -- usually powerful vested interests -- with visible, immediate losses. So the losers' coalition blocks reform. This dynamics has been well understood since the 1950s.
Reforms in response to a fiscal crisis won't stick. You can see the case of Egypt and Pakistan who keep going through structural IMF reforms every few years. India reformed because of a change in ideology, the 1991 crisis was just the straw that broke the camel's back.