Caste-preordained occupations guarantee social inefficiency

Evidence

Simmel’s extraordinary originality may well be connected with his position as a relatively isolated thinker. He was, indeed, a “stranger” in the academy. The stylistic manifestations of a marginal position are striking in his written work. Neither in Simmel’s text nor in annotations does one find acknowledgment of scholarly predecessors or contemporaries. He speaks for himself, along with the immortal dead. What is more, Simmel deliberately shied away from recruiting disciples to carry on his kinds of inquiry. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economic reform cannot succeed without prior social-order reform in India — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 852; Caste’s fixed occupations cause unemployment by blocking occupational adjustment.; Caste pollution beliefs bounded Untouchables to low-paid mill spinning jobs that communists ignored (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10
• Caste pollution beliefs bounded Untouchables to low-paid mill spinning jobs that communists ignored #exemplifies (0.60)
• Gandhi’s Ahmedabad labour union institutionalised caste divisions in its very structure #exemplifies (0.55)
• Coercive labor recruitment created inefficiency by heightening African resistance to work #corroborates (0.50)