Bill Gates calls India 'a laboratory to try things'

So:<p><pre><code> India is an example of a country where there&#x27;s plenty of things that are difficult there -- the health, education, nutrition is improving and they are stable enough and generating their own government revenue enough that it&#x27;s very likely that 20 years from now people will be dramatically better off and it&#x27;s kind of a laboratory to try things that then when you prove them out in India, you can take to other places </code></pre> Interpreted as:<p><pre><code> Bill Gates says he uses India as a laboratory for testing new drugs on us. And our govt allows this evil man &amp; his foundations to use us as guinea pigs! Shocking and shameful! </code></pre> Not trying to defend Gates, but that&#x27;s extremely taken out of context.

He is right that India is super interesting, cuz if you look at their neighborhood every single country is either on IMF life support or a failed state.<p>And if you look at their Central and State govt spending, there is hardly any capex available for anything. Yet they somehow keep growing, and haven&#x27;t collapsed. Its such a large system, even if parts of it implode there are other parts that seem to compensate. This is possibly why they don&#x27;t look like their neighborhood or Africa.<p>If India implodes the world will be a much more chaotic place.