Please enjoy Sawant's victory now as it is not likely to be repeated.

If only the poverty in India was due to "technological innovation that disenfranchises workers and makes the poor poorer". It's due to a caste system that keeps people where they are. I'd like to see Sawant tackle that one.

I'm also curious - if technological innovation does disenfranchise workers and make the poor poorer, what's the alternative? Halting innovation? Going the route Pol Pot took in Cambodia?

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Yes Sawant should be urging for increased productivity but as we see in Seattle with rent control, Sawant wants government to ration what she thinks is a limited pie of housing. A zero sum game of housing supply.
Limitations on housing quantity could only be limits on Sawant's limited imagination.

British comedy covered this years ago.

"Superman? Indian. Superman runs faster than a train. There's only one country in the world where a man can do that. India."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzoMURDEo…

This is the same dude who oversaw the layoff of my Indian friend at meecrosoft - a 13 year veteran who wasn't even in the nokia tribe.

Balmer and every other Caucasian CEO could give two shits about the plight of the poors be they pink or brown... and we never ask or expect them to do so. Conversely we somehow expect non - Caucasian executives to bear the collective and historical burden of their brothers and sisters. Positionality trumps idendity in the corporate world?

"Nadella strikes the corporate world as a kind of Gandhi figure."
I didn't know we were comparing ceo's of corporate America to humanitarians! Wow, I can't wait until the article on steve ballmer. Is he like micorsoft's previous nelson mandela?

@8, of course. Non-Caucasians are assumed by whites to have experienced some sort of discrimination (even though rich Indians certainly haven't) and therefore they're assumed to be more sensitive. Which, since humanity is a farmyard where the stronger chickens peck the weaker ones, doesn't happen, and the non-Caucasian strong chickens are blamed for their natural impulses. Sawant was an anomaly.

Sawant lost my confidence when she voted to cap Lyft and Uber drivers in favor of the taxi monopoly. No excuse for that kind of BS.

they r probably more excited about the Microsoft CEO because India's relationship with state planning hasn't worked for India while India's relationship with the tech industry has produced tens of thousands of jobs

guessing