By Indian standards, my girlfriend's parents are very rich, so they have a house help for ~6 out of 7 days a week (not the same one every day). They are being paid 5000 rupees, which is the equivalent of 55 USD a month. This is pretty competitive with a dishwasher, which doesn't even clean everything.
This is exactly what I told my mom when she was convinced to buy a dishwasher she already pays 3k a month to the maid, which washes the dishes, mops the floors and cooks food on daily basis. Thankfully due to poor delivery she got time to make course correction on her impulse buying.
Like you will have to buy a subscription to the dish washer moreover it will cost more in EMI and electricity. Will only pay off after (optimistically) maybe years considering minor inconvenience caused by irregularity of humans during festive seasons.
My girlfriend's father has strong views on politics that I often disagree with. One of those was that "Europe is dying". Being a European I felt like I disagreed with this.
The Indian nationalist agenda is about deriding certain countries at cost of their own. I am not even sure whether he genuinely came to that conclusion after deliberation or did he buy into the narrative of India already being the "world leader" .
1For another thing, I think I can be mentally “tired” but not physically tired, and vice-versa. But be warned that it’s a bit tricky to think about this, because unpleasant physical exertion generally involves both attention control and motor control. Thus, “willpower” can somewhat substitute for “physical energy” and vice-versa. See “Example 1” here.
Hmm, correlation may not imply causation here but when I am exerting more willpower and orienting my life with unusual amount of stress, I often end up getting more hungry compared to normal. It might be due to some third cause of getting up early, doing exercise on time, being more punctual and prompt etc.
pretty much this— I trained my brain to hurt whilst thinking hard, then later trained it out of it.
it has been longer than a week any updates?
Not a video yet fairly useful primer
https://commoncog.com/the-tacit-knowledge-series/
I kind of want to have my cake and eat it too, it depends on situation context etc. I tend to desire both safety and respect, it also depends on the mood.
I (and my friends) might be more of a woman as per this criterion. lol. (for reference I happen to be part of the cluster which my society recognises as with the label "young men"; I am mostly neutral on most of these, and lean womanly on others)
personal blog RSS feeds are coming soon
Can someone(if not op) please give me a feed url for that?
I think there're a few reasons for this from my time being born and brought up here:
First, India is very much a hierarchical society. People don't vote for politicians if they appear too "cheap" , a sense of overarching status convinces a lot of people to vote for them. Anecdotal evidence but Ex-Delhi's chief minister got slapped twice(some people threw ink on him) because he came in as a common man—evidently a bunch of people didn't respect his power— now he started being aloof and wielding his power , and the slaps stopped happening, although he did get arrested and lost the election afterwards but that's a different story.
Second, the media is very much pro establishment, due to various financial factors the government has outsized indirect control over the media, via ED (law enforcement raids) , funding political adverts to preferential news outlets, only giving interviews to sycophants or scripted pundits(it has been exposed live before on accident). Dissent is heavily suppressed, corruption is quite normalized or outside of overton window of "major issues".
Third, India has a huge welfare state, Modi (and his surviving competitors) can be seen as one of the great welfarist in Indian history, despite being alleged "neoliberal" , around 800 million Indians get free food grains from the government, millions of woman get free effectively preferential UBI directly to their bank accounts. (Although the amount is small it's often enough to get by, but there're many woman only schemes) Ayushman bharat cover 500k rupees(direct conversion would be 6k$, PPP would be higher) per year-family for healthcare (although implementation is questionable).
Fourth, people have seen worse and the rate of growth is quite enchanting for the ones who have lived long enough. People went from having no TVs to smartphones(50-60% penetrations at the moment) in span of 2 generations (or equivalently having no electricity to being electrified). Although the growth is disparate , having a blooming private sector which works is better than dysfunctional government services for the people who can afford it. Corruption runs rampant in government.
A lot of opposition politicians now want to change that by having 60% reservation based on caste in private sector. Effectively getting more of the bureaucracy (if it wasn't too much already due to historical laws and socialist past) into the private sector. I mean it's controversial, hopefully merit based systems remain in private sector (Obviously I would be on the losing end of it, if it ever happens so take it with a grain of salt).
Fifth, majority of workforce is still in agriculture, I remember bringing this up, if there's an economic crash, the small Indian farmers who're self sustaining on agriculture may not be that effected by it. Wages mean less if you don't have any to begin with. It's how in early europe they had a flood of people from rural areas despite the urban graveyards and lower life expectancy caused by higher population density. (and India has it better with modern healthcare)
Gandhi championed self sustenance, he spinned his own clothes that became a political symbol against outsourcing of labour from for then comparatively much more manual industries to Britain. Although opinions vary many people saw(still see) this as a form of colonialisation, the act of buying our raw produce, making expensive products and selling it back.
There might be more reasons which don't come to my mind but it's 5:30 AM IST , so it's probable that I have covered most of them. (Also writing this comment was a bad decision on my time)