Thursday, April 17, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Alleviating poverty will cost money no one is ready to pay...
There are 300million or more Indians living below the poverty line - which the government has balanced at a pithy USD7.5 per month (or USD90 per annum). Assuming that on an average these 300 million souls would need USD30 per year to pull them above the waterline, one would need to pump USD 9 billion into the country every year, till such time poverty is 'alleviated'.
Now if we need to get everyone to sane levels of income - the minumum wage mark of USD375 per year, we'd need an additional /USD85 billion!
Who should we take this money from? Erstwhile colonists? Our own past politicians?
This continuing plight of a billion people across asian countries is worse than the holocaust...
But then strangely some of our 'self-made' (is there such a thing?) millionaires would rather buy a Formula One team than support, lets say, a rural school programme. The same folks whose fathers are rendered sozzled by this self-made millionaires' hooch. I think the team should be re-named 'Poor India'.
The sad, macabre, unjust fact of life is that for all of us to have what we do, someone MUST have less than we do... Dark, very dark truth...
Makes your skin crawl at times...
Now if we need to get everyone to sane levels of income - the minumum wage mark of USD375 per year, we'd need an additional /USD85 billion!
Who should we take this money from? Erstwhile colonists? Our own past politicians?
This continuing plight of a billion people across asian countries is worse than the holocaust...
But then strangely some of our 'self-made' (is there such a thing?) millionaires would rather buy a Formula One team than support, lets say, a rural school programme. The same folks whose fathers are rendered sozzled by this self-made millionaires' hooch. I think the team should be re-named 'Poor India'.
The sad, macabre, unjust fact of life is that for all of us to have what we do, someone MUST have less than we do... Dark, very dark truth...
Makes your skin crawl at times...
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Spam and your employers persuading you to stay
Isn't is strange that people who try and trick you into opening mails promising 'organ enhancements' and 'economic enhancements' want you to trust them enough to buy the same from them? What a leap of faith they ask of you...
And then isn't it equally strange that when you decide to leave your employers their line of argument, without fail, veers towards making you feel terribly stupid about moving to 'the other organization' rather than proving to you how 'clever you could seem' if you decided to take their 'new offer'...
Don't the concepts sound alike? self defeating, losing strategies...
Maybe spam is just an electronic manifestation of what we marketers do every day of our lives...
And then isn't it equally strange that when you decide to leave your employers their line of argument, without fail, veers towards making you feel terribly stupid about moving to 'the other organization' rather than proving to you how 'clever you could seem' if you decided to take their 'new offer'...
Don't the concepts sound alike? self defeating, losing strategies...
Maybe spam is just an electronic manifestation of what we marketers do every day of our lives...
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