{"id":3727,"date":"2024-06-22T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2024-06-22T19:30:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T23:30:02","slug":"rotten-desi-plutocrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2024\/06\/22\/rotten-desi-plutocrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotten Desi Plutocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-dmbasic wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/news\/biz-tech\/2024\/06\/22\/hinduja-group-fall-into-disgrace-inside-previous-controversies-haunting-uk-richest-family.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"The Hinduja Group\u2019s fall into disgrace: Inside previous controversies haunting UK\u2019s richest family\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/content\/dam\/week\/week\/news\/biz-tech\/images\/2024\/6\/22\/Namrata%20Hinduja%20and%20Ajay%20Hinduja%20AFP.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">The Hinduja Group\u2019s fall into disgrace: Inside previous controversies haunting UK\u2019s richest family<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Four members of Hinduja family were convicted of exploiting staff<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is the cultural rot of superiority and entitlement. They probably wouldn&#8217;t be able to do this in an Indian city because the demand gives workers some leverage despite the lack of labor regulations. Even their fellow Western plutocrats generally keep their exploitation of impoverished people at least marginally above slavery \u2013 unless, of course, trafficking is among their business practices. I&#8217;m sure Switzerland has a healthy pool of domestic labor like the rest of the global north, the only reason they&#8217;d bring workers in from India is to use them without the protections of the country&#8217;s labor laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the cultural rot of superiority and entitlement. They probably wouldn&#8217;t be able to do this in an Indian city because the demand gives workers some leverage despite the lack of labor regulations. Even their fellow Western plutocrats generally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2024\/06\/22\/rotten-desi-plutocrats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,425,426,207,424,324],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-desi","tag-domestic-workers","tag-hinduja","tag-labor","tag-plutocrats","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/04\/29\/vir-das-desi-comic\/","url_meta":{"origin":3727,"position":0},"title":"Vir Das, desi comic.","author":"aslam","date":"April 29, 2017","format":"video","excerpt":"Vir Das, desi comic.","rel":"","context":"In \"desi\"","block_context":{"text":"desi","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/desi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":185,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/11\/12\/narendra-modis-visit-to-the-uk-is-overshadowed-by\/","url_meta":{"origin":3727,"position":1},"title":"Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to the UK is overshadowed by nationalist violence in India | Mirza Waheed","author":"aslam","date":"November 12, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"During his trip to Silicon Valley in September, Modi was seen hugging a fawning Mark Zuckerberg. 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