This might be on you and the company you work for. Many companies have remote work baked into their culture and from my experience, the quality of communication tends to be quite high
Honesty is the best policy in a society that has rule of law. People who are able to manipulate their way to success have skills and perspective that allow them to be successful at manipulation. They would be successful if they chose an honest path too.
To answer your question directly- it is harder than it looks
To the GP's rhetorical point, if you /really/ are wondering why you shouldn't, then you aren't actually happily married.
To your original point, no, there would be no point to being honest if being dishonest made it easier to get ahead. But it would be very naive to presume that being dishonest makes it easier to get ahead. You need to have cunning to get ahead by being dishonest, and one false move can screw up a long period of well executed dishonesty. Are you personally equipped to pull that off? Better than those who've been practicing their whole lives? And beyond that, the psychological and sociological ramifications of it will catch up with you too. Who do you think you'll tend to be surrounded by if you take such a strategy? What kind of life experiences will you never get to experience as a result of that? You don't have to look very far to get answers to that. It's not pretty.
For some people, pure wealth or fame is worth any degree of dishonesty, by which I mean the negative effects of it simply do not cause them difficulty. But I think the far more likely case is that our societal discourse minimizes the difficulty it does cause. When peace decays and order crumbles, it doesn't make warfare (literal or figurative) any less expensive or unpleasant. It just makes it harder to avoid.
I don’t see how the west is undertaking this process. The west has adopted and successfully implemented classical liberalism and set up flourishing liberal economies. In order to support these economies and the form of government they prop up, the west needs a constantly increasing growth and workers. Given that birth rates are falling and westerners (read white folks) are not moving in search of work as much as they used to domestically and internationally, the west needs to attract workers from outside the west.
These workers allow the economies to grow and in turn demand they be treated as first class citizens.
I am a bit hesitant to engage with this comment. I am not sure whether it comes a lack of understanding of what Nationalism actually means, in which case education will consist of reading history, or wether you understand what it means and think it is appropriate to turn a secular country into a Hindu nation and disenfranchise hundreds of millions of non Hindus.
They are children. Do children have no special protections in India? Is interrogation much better?
This tactic of defending the government by trying to distract from this heinous set of events by arguing semantics is not new, but doesn’t deserve to be HN.
Not interrogated at police station. The police went to the school. No kid is detained or under arrest. They are free to go but they probably don't know that, being kids. Is is morally wrong? Yes. But the article is click-bait.
They were children. Do children have no special protections in India? Is interrogation much better?
Not sure if you are a pedant who cares to an inappropriate degree about the proper use of words, or more likely, trying to distract from this heinous set of events by arguing semantics.
Lately, the government has been widely cracking down upon all sorts of dissent, claiming the excuse of 'anti-national tendencies', invoking sedition laws. The situation is pretty dire at the moment.
Laws exist on paper. Law enforcement agencies however have been historically known to act on behalf of leaders, a behaviour which also seen in many other countries.
As another commentator mentioned, these kids aren’t free to leave. As you said, there aren’t any lawyers or parents present. Not sure how you aren’t classifying their situation as locked-up.
They have no liberty or agency, and putting them in a cell will not change their predicament in the slightest.
I agree, though real economic progress doesn't seem like a priority for the government as can be witnessed by the slowdown and silly policies like demonetization.
