> 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 disc

> 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult