Vote by Agnivesh Patel.
Whenever government offers you a service always question: Is it voluntary?
If that service provided by the government is really good, they would not need to force its citizens to use it.
Aadhaar is no different. While the government maintains that Aadhaar is completely voluntary, it is not. Sure you can ignore the Aadhaar scheme and go about living your life, but the government has made the large section of population so dependent on the state (through various subsidies) that it has become borderline slavery. In this slavery, government can push down the throats of its population, any scheme it wants, without question and still call it voluntary.
While you may not need Aadhaar to buy onions, state wants to attach it to various subsidies that the people of our country have become so hopelessly dependent upon. Through these subsidies the state has hoarded all the resources and commodities in the garb of social welfare that it seems as if state is the sole provider to its people. State cannot give you something that it has not stolen from other people.
Before the supreme court ruling, the state even wanted to attach it to various other schemes that are very popular - like applying for a gas pipeline. If the supreme court had not intervened everyone would have had to get an Aadhaar card.
Today you can ignore the Aadhaar scheme if you are ready to forgo the subsidized goods that you have been benefiting from.
It is a very cruel thing to first control the market and avoid competition to become the sole provider of certain goods, then provide those goods at subsidized prices - killing more competition using tax money, and then force the population at large to accept any scheme attached to those goods.
So who benefits from the Aadhaar scheme?
Definitely not the "people". They have been getting subsidies before Aadhaar came into picture. (The very existence of subsidies is detrimental to the population.) It has been said that with Aadhaar the state will be able to distribute subsidies better and it might be true. But then again who benefits if not the state? State which has monopolized the market to benefit certain players. State is just improving the process of distribution for these players.
Another group of companies that will make huge profits at our expense are the companies contracted to make and manage these Aadhaar cards. They will receive huge grants from the govt. to implement these schemes for the govt.
Of course large corporates are bagging huge business to implement the state's vile schemes:
Aadhaar is a scheme of the state, by the corporates, for the monopolies.
After the supreme court verdict force has been gathering to make Aadhaar completely involuntary getting it linked to various popular subsidy schemes. They might just win this battle.
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