380 karma · joined April 29, 2019
Customers should band up and boycott the restaurants who want to end delivery app business and whoever is part of this movement. To each his own.
Thing is, customer was never king in India unlike many other countries where you can sue and get compensated.
She leaned on me while talking to me with her top buttons open, would run her hand over my hair. Joke about me being gay and then I ignore and ignore because I've a girlfriend and I didn't find her attractive because of her bossy/controlling attitude even though she was just my coworker not a manager.
I usually don't make my co-workers friend. I just do what's assigned to me and if I see anything we can improve, I offer suggestions to my manager.
That was the first time I saw guys siding with a physically beautiful woman. They didn't know a thing about me yet sided with her.
Now even when any woman asks me to meet, I ask them to either text me same or email me.
They need to get rid of income taxes and GST.
Honestly, if they do not do this now - there will be nothing to tax in future.
Permits, licenses also need to be removed barring some sectors which include healthcare, education and food.
Also land is a big problem in India, government should overtake all the land and lease it out for good use and not allow any person or entity to own land. People seeing land as a store house of value is really bad thing!
Get done with import duties because this is making local manufacturers weak (use indigenous shoddy tools you end up with shoddy output), remove unfriendly rules which prevent foreign players from selling their expertise here.
Annex private gold holdings, it will be next big thing after demonetization. It will make the citizens more equal.
People should know if there is anyway to get rich is not by hoarding land or putting money in bank, but by starting business.
In US, you are free to eat beef. And some people have depression which is reportedly only gets better if they consume beef. You can Google "read meat+depression" to learn more. If you are in India, pretty sure it will be very difficult for anyone to follow that diet.
Where is freedom of speech in India? All these things are anti minority.
The problem with India is that internal demand for products is negligible, people aren't spending, everyone's saving! And a lot of people don't have employment. It's overburdened by taxes.
Country has many manufacturers but no retailers willing to sell the produce.
Country is developing very fast, when you can't buy pvc pipe, MDF, custom cut glass online?
There is no company selling screws online in India, strange!
Local businessmen do not want to take any risk.
When internal demand and supply is dead. Opening market for iPhones gonna put downward pressure on currency.
I am not saying, it's a bad move. It's welcomed move, I suggest India open its market for foreign manufacturers and companies, so that they are able to sell here anything duty free.
But this will lead to a massive correction on the currency value which is long overdue.
If currency loses it value entirely, I think the government will mandate private household gold be sold to the government at fixed rate set by government which will be used to pay for gas/petroleum import once the currency tanks.
India's currency will definitely tank if it opens itself up.
But there is massive amount of household gold which can be used to support the currency and bring it back up.
This will honestly make people more equal specially in country where there are many havenots, strengthening the currency should be lot more important.
Annexing private gold holding should be next big step after demonetization.
My co-worker went got me fired because I didn't accept her advances. It's a long story but she accused me of hitting on her, when in reality she was hitting on me and I was just ignoring her. A bunch of other guys supported her (idk why, I didn't know those guys much but they supported her even tho she is a pathological lier.)
That's changing, it's now no shame for a woman to have multiple partners or one night stands, everyone's on tinder.
We can have an app where if you consent to have sex with someone then your sexual health status is automatically shared with whoever you consented to before the act.
You only have sex once you get green light, otherwise you are on your own!
Does it breach their right? IDK, I'll let someone HNer educate me on that.
And if it's a solution then why isn't it being implemented, how can we leave it upto people to be truthful about their status?
And then we can follow from there, if we stop saving them we do not develop our evolutionary advantage further.
Even in countries where there is arranged marriage, successful men are matched up with more beautiful women (but within equal cast and somewhat equal socio-economic status)
>Families decay when bright, successful men choose women for their beauty.
I don't follow how family decays when beauty is selected. Women can be beautiful and successful at the same time.
>In societies where matchmaking is done by parents or by recognized matchmakers, the outcome is likely much better in terms of creating and maintaining high achieving strains.
It might lead to a stable family on average but it doesn't mean people in such setting are happy.
What I've observed is that countries were arranged marriage is common, women when they are young have lovers in college but they flush down their social media, dress more conservative when time for arrange marriage come, often they also take up a job for short duration to signal independence/education.
In west, where there is more freedom. Young women date handsome men but if such relationship doesn't last long, their priorities change and they look for financially stable average looking men, though if they are lucky they might also get handsome and financially well off man.
It's quite rare for a woman to marry a man who doesn't make as much money as her if not more.
It's happening, just that we do not acknowledge it. People are always selecting for the traits they see as favourable either consciously or subconsciously. Women do not date me because I look scary (as terrorist as some woman put succinctly) it means they are selecting for man who look less scary. Some women also told me that I do not respect women, so they are selecting for men who respect women. I am cool with that because I also select for a woman who is comfortable with me without I changing myself completely.
Countries in East Europe can have lower quality of life, mostly depends on your income.
I also eat pizza slice which falls off my hand on the floor in my home. I've dropped food on floor many times, I just don't like to see food being wasted, I am not poor or anything.
Infact, I am one of those people who rarely fall ill. Last year I had cold 1 time that lasted 2 days. Then there was a viral fever in my location and people were sick for 7-10 days and needed corse of antibiotics to clear as I got to know from my local doctor buddy.
I caught the same viral from some Amazon delivery guy but refused to take meds and it auto healed it just 2 days!
When I am about to fall sick, my appetite shots up and I feel very hungry then these small things always go away quick.
Wonder how much of that is healthcare and education which is wayyy expensive in US.
Looking at population density of India, I don't think it's population issue. You mentioned overpopulation in your response to India's problem. I assure you, India can grow as rich as US even at 3 billion population.
India has many problems but population at present in not one of those, maybe it will become a problem if population growth is kept uncheck. But don't blame slow development in past and present to population.
Population being accumulated in few cities is a problem of government and their failure to understand how market works and how they can better it.
None of the political party in India have any viable development plan.
Have you ever owned a non IT business? I am in India and my friends who have successful shops received death threats many times. One even sold his hotel because his son was getting kidnapped all time.
>If the population of India halved over night, there would be half as many mouths to feed; there would be much less unemployment people could afford to charge higher wages for unskilled jobs (because there would be less competition to drive prices down.) How would that not be an improvement?
There will also be less demand for goods, ask those countries which have negative population replacement rate. Where will the demand come from if population halved that means half as much demand for your wheat, rice, and all other necessities.
Other opportunities do exist but mostly it means being dependent on your parents (to get more education) and they are not going to be very nice and always going to call you out how you have failed them. Sometimes, you might even have PhD from lowly ranked institution and you don't get job. There are simply so many institutes offering degrees where you pay per semester $5000 (obvious way to find it through loans from family and friends or bank loan) and might end up with a degree getting you either no job or stuck for years in $400 job.
If you are well off, you may become part of your Dad's business in which case it's not a big deal or your dad may use his contacts to install you in some company.
But if you've no connections, no money and you bid everything on this education, you might be left win nothing at the end.
Internal demand is very less in India so even if you try to do something else, like small time manufacturing or owning a shop (it's bloody battle). Often the ones who have actual shops are sort of mafia types who won't bat an eye to burn your shop or murder you outright this comes after you manage to convince anyone about giving you money for bootstrapping (which is also very rare)
If you are small time business owner in India, either you've very good connections or you use muscle force to stay in business and demand for whatever you produce or sell might simply not be there.
These are my observation as a foreigner in India.
Maybe in South India it's different but i am in North India.
More people means more demand.
The biggest problem is that those people do not have money which can't drive economy through demand.
And there is definitely something that can be done about it.
Population is large sure, but population density is similar to some middle populated European countries.
As a thought experiment if population of India halves over night, the situation will still not improve!