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I had an Indian acquaintance who told me that nothing happens in Delhi without sweets boxes full of cash. That, he said, was why Indians buy so many sweets - you can't accomplish anything official without a gift of sweets (with cash in them). He was pretty incensed about it, too - clearly, his entire life was one big grifty adventure of paying bribes to dipshits. We talked about Modi changing out all the currency and he saw it as an unalloyed good. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the petty grifters to come clean about some of the taxes they hadn't been paying and a leveling of the playing field for all the mid-level dipshits who had been grifting their entire adult lives. Notably, my friend is not a muslim.