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[English] Your Birth Should Not Become Your Destiny, Right?

[English] Your Birth Should Not Become Your Destiny, Right?

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[Preview books] [Borrow books] [Pause] Let us begin our discussion with a simple illustration.Imagine a 100-meter running race. In a fair world, everyone stands at the zero-meter line. The starter pistol fires, the whistle blows, and whoever runs the fastest wins. Simple, right?But unfortunately, we do not live in such a world. In the real world—whether you are in New York, London, Tokyo, or New Delhi—this race is not so fair. Even before the race begins, some people are already standing at the 50-meter mark, while others are forced to start 20 meters behind the starting line.You have probably already guessed the race I am talking about. It is the race called social inequality.For decades, societies around the world have been trying to correct this. Through "affirmative action" in countries like America, "social diversity quotas" in Europe, and "reservation systems" in Asia, attempts have continuously been made to remove this inequality.All these have been well-intentioned efforts. But we must honestly admit one thing: the present systems have completely failed.Instead of solving inequality, they have become political battlefields. They have turned into political football games played by leaders to win elections and secure their vote banks. But the real problem remains exactly where it was, and is in fact growing worse day by day.The old method we are currently using has two major flaws that everyone can see, but nobody openly likes to talk about.• First, it is extremely oversimplified and merely superficial. It assumes that if a person belongs to a particular social group or race, then that person must certainly be disadvantaged. But we all know that there are wealthy "lower-class families" sending their children to luxurious private schools in London, just as there are poor "upper-class" families whose children are literally starving. When a rich child uses benefits reserved for the poor, it becomes an act of "stealing" an opportunity from a truly needy child within that same community.• Second, our political solutions become frozen over time. Once a law or policy is created, it becomes an unerasable line. The system never considers whether a community has genuinely progressed over the past few decades; it continues giving medicine to a patient who may already be healed, while the person dying beside him receives nothing.We must stop asking, "Which caste or race do you belong to?" Instead, we must begin asking, "What has your path of struggle been like?" We must rise above politics and move toward fair opportunity.And this can be achieved not through political slogans, but through a transparent, AI-based fair system.To understand whether such a system can truly work, let us take the example of a country like India. India is perhaps the most suitable laboratory for this idea. Because:• India faces one of the most complex and deeply rooted systems of social stratification in the world.• But India also has a huge advantage: the digital infrastructure required to implement such a system already exists there.For more than seventy years, India has operated a caste-based reservation system in government jobs and higher educational institutions. But the wealthy sections within oppressed communities themselves are taking most of the benefits, while the poorest citizens in remote villages still remain deprived.Yet for any politician, removing a community from the reservation list is almost equal to political suicide. And so the entire system has become stagnant.Now look at India's modern digital infrastructure.• India has implemented biometric-based citizen identity systems. Everything—from your mobile phone to your bank account—is linked to that identity.• Fully digitized educational records in schools and colleges are becoming common.• A largely trackable digital payment system already exists.• And there is also a massive income-tax data network linked to citizen identities.In other words, the required data already exists.If a bank can study a person's digital footprint and decide within just five seconds whether that individual deserves a 50,000 loan, then why should we not use an AI-based algorithm to determine who most urgently needs a college seat or a job?Instead of a caste certificate, this fair system would calculate a continuously changing "social status score." Think of it like a credit score—but instead of merely looking at birth records, it measures the actual obstacles a person had to overcome in life.In this system, AI can judge the fairness of the race through at least four simple principles:• Path of struggle. — If a person's parents have already used reservation benefits to obtain high-level government positions or privileges, then that person's own score decreases. The family has already received the support it needed; now it should step aside and make room for a first-generation student from a remote village.• Parents' background. — If ...
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