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by balakk 5284 days ago
For people who are wondering why this is a bad thing, some context:

In India there are two groups among such "entrepreneurs"

- People who make out a genuine living buy providing typewriting, proof-reading and other services. There's a genuine need for this, because of the relative lack of literacy and byzantine rules.

- Touts. Vermin who have an unholy nexus with the bureaucracy, and generally thrive on rampant corruption.

The second group is the reason for despair. Widespread computerization only helps to an extent; such services still tend to involve manual processes, and corruption does not stop.