Because growth for its own sake is antithetical to the HN mission. There is no money making off this site, it exists for people of a like-mind to socialize and learn. If you want growth for it's own sake, go talk to reddit.
I'm here for technical content. Occasionally that overlaps with politics, frequently there are other things that most technical people will be interested in, but primarily, I'm here for technical content.
This post should be of extreme interest to absolutely everyone, without exception. And it's exactly that complete generality that makes it inappropriate, in my view, for a technically focused forum such as HN.
My view is but one among many, and others may disagree, but if HN loses focus, it loses appeal to me, and to many of those whose opinions, ideas and comments I want to see.
In India, it is known that officials in the government slack during office hours. Delaying of process for unworthy reasons. Numerous time-breaks and other infinite 'small' but aggregatively deterrent forms of behaviours in the office.
The camera moves the whole system a step forward. Transparency is more easily perceivable to the public now. The necessity of a sting operation in the office does not emerge. People can have a fresh perspective on the laws for the government officials.
Psychologically, this might build a better work environment. It has been shown that adding monitoring video cameras does add a certain form of placebo effect.
I hope the 'mantra' should be improvement, no matter how small it is. A complete revamp of the system is more like dreaming about humans taking over all the nine(eight eh?) planets, and that too in an year.
The corruption in India is a bit different. If you need a electricity connection for you home you need to pay a bribe. If you need water connection more bribe. If you want to run a hotel you need to take 375 permission and for each you have to pay a bribe (all these 375 permission need to be renewed every year, well most of them).
Even the poorest people who live less than $2 per day have to pay a bribe to get a certificate that says they are poor enabling them to take benefit of various social security schemes.
