🏴Darren Low🏴

memento vivere

[Pintu @Pintuu0]

Painkiller after seeing pain inside me:

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No work, No study Just kiss kiss

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

"UNHAND ME WOMAN I'M LATE FOR WORK"

[Kathleen @tmszhjh88]

The Use of Paper Boxes

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

LOOK AT THEM MARSHMALLOWS 🥹

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Baker 😊

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

who broke his heart

[🏴Darren Low🏴 @darrenlow1998]

@FortniteGame Ya but let us randomise loadouts too

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Committing gen0cide is more acceptable for #Microsoft than speaking out against gen0cide!

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Normalize this.

[🏴Darren Low🏴 @darrenlow1998]

@Izzah_Khalis You don't have to be strong to be loved/wanted

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israel, the only country in the world desperately trying to make itself look like the Nazi Germany

[Apurva Sanghi @ApurvaSanghi]

My thoughts on Malaysia’s RON95 fuel subsidy reform

TLDR?

- Defining T15 is lowkey tricky
- No perfect rollout
- Be wary of fuel prices being politicized

1. Defining T15 is tricky

If u look at just after-tax income, you miss out on household size

A hh earning 10k with 0 kids vs hh earning 10k but with 3 kids are treated the same (as noted by @Thevesh & others)

But adjusting for family size is not enuf. A same size family earning 10k in KL vs in Kelantan are in different categories

So adjusting for both HH size & where u live is good!

But don’t go overboard with trying to capture all possible differences or you can end up with odd results:

For ex, household A with 10k income and 6k in loans has only 4k left

But household B with 6k and no loans has more at their disposal

Suddenly, hh A has better shot at that subsidy that hh B. Not very mindful!

So:

--> Adjust incomes by household size + location

That may be “good enough” for a T15 label. Don’t let perfection take an L!

2. No perfect rollout:

- Two-tier pricing at the pump? T15 could just send a B85 buddy to fuel up (as noted by @imokman)

- Floating fuel prices + cash transfers for B85? Sounds solid but databases need to be glitch-free for it to work smoothly

- Various other options but no ideal move here—it’s all about picking the least sus option. And likely, that is:

(i) Adjust after-tax incomes by household size + location for a “good enough” T15 label

(ii) Float fuel prices (but slowly)!

(iii) Provide cash transfers to B85 + keep 💪🏾ing up those databases to make sure no B85 is left out

3. Final point: Fuel prices are an easy political 🎯 in any country. Once they’re floated, in any country, an opposition could drag a gov for high/volatile prices (which are now beyond the gov’s control)

So:
...bumping up comms to explain link btwn global & local prices to public are vital. That ensures
...an appropriate and empathetic narrative prevails in the nat'l discourse, and
...a price-smoothing plan may also help, but that’s a convo for another time

End/

[nazferatu 🍉 @nzranasr]

Lah, I thought you were talking to Najib.