Adarsh Sinh

Self-taught developer. Interested in startups, economics, and global systems

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

Starting without clarity. Continuing without excuses. Time will judge.

He who perseveres, conquers

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

Comparing yourself to others is unfair because you can see all of your insecurities and none of theirs.

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue”

— Russian Proverb

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

@SiddharthKG7 @GamesBond006 There's your answer

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

@MattooShashank China's 2nd biggest supplier is Ukraine wow. Reverse engineering at a fast pace?

[Ginger @Gboye_Rave]

i barely go on instagram cause everybody’s life just seems too perfect. i come on here cause y’all are lunatics

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

Only one direct train between Pune and Patna, on one of the busiest migration routes in the country. Earlier it ran from Patna, extended to Supaul, but frequency, still one train. Lakhs travel this line for work. Tickets open 60 days before and still show WL135. @AshwiniVaishnaw

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

This is probably the single best context about India in the new world, you will hear from a business point of view.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while.

For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt.

The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale.

Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general.

This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less.

We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal.

Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”).

And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility.

Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income.

And then what happens?

The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated.

The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door.

Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

Why Mumbai will never be a world class financial centre like Shanghai, explained by Singapore's ex-PM Lee Kuan Yew

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

India and China have one big difference. In China, if they say they will do something, it gets done. In India, someone in Delhi will want to do something. But the state chief minister is not appointed by Delhi. He won't do it, argued ex-Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

@apurvasinkar01 @RahulChels What should be done according to you instead of giving the land to adani?

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

@HelloVyom There are around 12lakh registration every year for jee exams

[WhySid @Sidhanth_here]

The Beer & Taxes Analogy

10 friends go for beer every week. The bill is ₹10,000.

They split it like a tax system:

- First 4 pay ₹0
- 5th pays ₹100
- 6th pays ₹300
- 7th pays ₹700
- 8th pays ₹1,200
- 9th pays ₹1,800
- 10th (richest) pays ₹5,900

Everyone’s happy until the bar owner gives a ₹2,000 discount.

To stay proportional:

- First 5 now pay ₹0
- 6th pays ₹200
- 7th pays ₹500
- 8th pays ₹900
- 9th pays ₹1,400
- 10th pays ₹4,900

Everyone saves something but the richest naturally saves the most because he paid the most.

Outside, the complaints begin:

- “He saved ₹1,000, I saved only ₹100. Unfair!”
- “The rich get all the benefits!”
- “The poor got nothing!”

The 10th guy gets beaten up.

Next week he doesn’t show up.

The remaining 9 realise they can’t even pay half the bill without him.

Moral:

If you overtax or villainise the rich, they don’t stick around.

And when they leave: the whole system collapses, not just their share.

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

@aviralbhat @paulg Waah😭

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

@suritalreja Does not work

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

@HYDTrafficMan The two people crossing the road at the start of the video 🥵

[Jay Dwivedi @jaydwivedi_]

No gatekeeping anything
All the best - happy designing

[Balaji @balajis]

DECOUPLING FROM DOLLARS
The US sends India billions in printed dollars for valuable goods. This is actually the US government ripping off India, like it does Vietnam, and everyone else, including its own citizens...not vice versa.

To be precise: last year India exported $87B of valuable goods to the US for $42B of goods plus $45B worth of increasingly worthless dollars:

That difference of $45B was, effectively, made up by money printing, which the Fed does at will:

The current administration incorrectly thinks this is a bad deal for America, because they haven’t fully thought through the fact that the US can print dollars. India was giving America something that's always valuable (namely goods) for something that America can just print out of thin air (namely US dollars):

So...who was really ripping off whom?

As mentioned, this is the same trade America had with Vietnam. Vietnam worked hard to send America shoes, while America sent Vietnam printed dollars. And it’s the same trade America had with many countries, before the trade war. The world sends the US valuable goods, and gets mere Federal Reserve database entries in return:

The only reason the US had the right to do that — to run the financial database of the world, to print trillions for itself, and to freeze and seize the funds of billions — is because it set up what we call the rules-based order, what is in reality the American Empire. And of course it profited from that empire tremendously, but so did most of the empire's participants.

But now MAGA is dismantling that empire. It’s cutting off trade, talent, and even tourism. It’s abandoning its military commitments and telling allies to fend for themselves. It’s cutting off foreign aid and domestic universities. It is, in short, becoming a country not an empire.

The reason is because MAGA is fundamentally confused. It romanticizes 1945 America (the manufacturing country) without fully admitting that 2025 America makes its money in a completely different way, by managing the hub of a global financial empire.

Because the US is in denial about what it is — a money printer, not a manufacturer — it's currently on track to lose both the money-printing and the manufacturing. For example, the tariffs target the entire world (thereby reducing demand for the dollar in global trade) while also cutting off machine tools and raw materials from US entrepreneurs (thereby inhibiting the buildout of domestic manufacturing).

Anyway, I won't linger on the outlook for the US. It's made its decision and will live with it. Perhaps it will indeed be a Golden Age of Reindustrialization. And perhaps the transition to a "republic, not an empire" will go much better than the similar imperial climbdown of the UK or the USSR.

What should countries like India and Vietnam do?

They should turn a necessity into a virtue. The trade war has provided a powerful Schelling Point for the entire world to simultaneously stop using the dollar at the same time. This is also what America says it wants, for foreigners to stop "exploiting" it by accepting its printed dollars for hard goods.

So: abide by America's wishes and stop trading goods with America for dollars. Instead, trade goods with each other for local currencies (rather than USDs) and use gold for storing value (rather than USTs). Because there is no global reserve currency issued by a single country, trade remains roughly balanced over time.

Singapore's former PM calls this "world minus one." It's the continuation of global capitalism, just without America, who has voluntarily taken itself out of the game. Yes, there's a short-term adaptation cost, but the quicker that a country can decouple from the dollar the better.

Start saving in hard money instead.

[Adarsh Sinh @Adarshkds]

@striver_79 @gkcs_ We all are trying to build a jira for something