ThePrintPod: Dear L&T chairman, are the poor stuck in poverty because they don’t work 90-hour weeks?

'SN Subrahmanyan’s remarks blatantly imply that social mobility is purely a function of hard work, branding those who remain poor or live in hardship as lazy. They perpetuate the illusion that if everyone works 90-hour weeks, they’ll somehow all become rich, successful, and leaders in their field—conveniently ignoring the critical roles of luck and privilege in shaping outcomes. In a society with deeply entrenched hierarchical structures of caste and class, can mere hours of work truly alter people’s lives? This oversimplification dismisses such realities and blames individuals for circumstances often beyond their control', says columnist Amana Begum Ansari in this week’s column for ThePrint:----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/dear-lt-chairman-are-the-poor-stuck-in-poverty-because-they-dont-work-90-hour-weeks/2449568/