Worth remembering there are also left-coded objections to distant Westerners meddling in countries they don’t really understand. Though of course there are Indian EAs who could take this up, and while maybe they mostly don’t understand life for Keralese peasants all that well either, given the likely demographic background of most EAs, the ship has definitely sailed on middle-class Indians meddling in the lives of peasants. On the other side, there’s at least one semi-well known book from an author with fairly right-wing market-orientated views about what developed countries should do who thinks land redistribution is great: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works
Worth remembering there are also left-coded objections to distant Westerners meddling in countries they don’t really understand. Though of course there are Indian EAs who could take this up, and while maybe they mostly don’t understand life for Keralese peasants all that well either, given the likely demographic background of most EAs, the ship has definitely sailed on middle-class Indians meddling in the lives of peasants. On the other side, there’s at least one semi-well known book from an author with fairly right-wing market-orientated views about what developed countries should do who thinks land redistribution is great: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works