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[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all"

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

> What's your logic to limit affirmative action to only public sector which covers just 3% of jobs?

wait till he learns that the "Private Sector" is also a single digit percentage of jobs🫩

Agriculture and tiny informal firms employ the majority of workers in India.

[Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord]

Unlike orthodox marxism which is *obsessed* with matters of production and the distribution of its means, modern “pop marxism” takes production and logistics concerns as a solved problem; essentially presuming we already live in a state of post-scarcity.

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

you must follow @indiaemerges if you aren't already.

Genuinely the pinnacle of Indian Twitter. Some of the best writing and analysis you'll find on this platform, and it's not even behind a paywall.

Absolutely premium content.

[Forging India @indiaemerges]

Part 2 in the series on coal gasification. This time around, I focus on the economics of it. I try to show what the best path forward for India is and the economics definitely suggest that our first priority should be gasification for fertilizers and methanol.

The article got a bit too long but you can just browse the panels for each part if you don't want to read it. The panels tell the same story.

https://t.co/nRVQ5Xmzzl

[Forging India @indiaemerges]

Part 2 in the series on coal gasification. This time around, I focus on the economics of it. I try to show what the best path forward for India is and the economics definitely suggest that our first priority should be gasification for fertilizers and methanol.

The article got a bit too long but you can just browse the panels for each part if you don't want to read it. The panels tell the same story.

https://t.co/nRVQ5Xmzzl

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

i don't understand why Indians get offended when some Gora calls India a shithole which it is. not their fault that you're used to filthy public spaces, filthy air & water.

showing people pooping in California doesn't mean that India is California-tier in anything that matters.

[Ankit M (Currently Inactive) @AnkitM997]

We have the worst urban governance in the entire world but the thing that offends you people is why are foreigners showing 99% of the country that's dirty and not the 1% that's clean

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@mattyglesias @twst12612648

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@twst12612648 @soumitrashukla9 free trade, open borders, taco trucks at every corner.

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@twst12612648 atleast you're just blocked, he did worse to me. basically called me illiterate, brain dead and fascist, then unfollowed me. not the exact words but you get it.

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@twst12612648 @tandoorinightts i need to get a blue tick and rip them off full time

[Luf Thansa @lufthiniano]

all of us non americans have known this since forever Im afraid

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@twst12612648 ahahahhaaha🤣 perfect

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@AnthropicAI @twst12612648 thots?

[Forging India @indiaemerges]

TIL that farmers in KA, TN, PB and AP pay zero power tariff! Each state has a different model and a different set of conditions under which this happens (supply/usage capacity and timing limitations, for example). But broadly, the states bear the cost and the farmers never see the electricity bill.

[@indiainfographics.bsky.social @Deshpacito661]

The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is a dense metric that encapsulates the quality of healthcare available to the average citizen and the sanitary conditions they live in.

What happens when you superimpose the infant mortality rates from 2020 (the latest year for which all subnational data is available) in the Indian subcontinent?

You get more surprising findings. The disparity between Pakistan and the rest of the subcontinent widens.

I had originally assumed that Pakistan had somewhat comparable levels of literacy and infant mortality to Indian BIMARU states. However, that is a false assumption.

You get more evidence that Pakistan's feudal elite is monopolizing its fiscal resources for their pet projects and neglecting the welfare of its ordinary citizens.

[Forging India @indiaemerges]

One distinct disadvantage India has compared to its peers when it comes to manufacturing is the cost of industrial power. A factory in India needs to pay more per unit than its counterparts in other Asian countries.

This MUST change and one way to do it is by eliminating cross-subsidies i.e. industrial consumers should not have to pay more to fund cheaper power for subsidized agricultural consumers, for instance.

The government wants to do exactly this. They propose the total elimination of all cross-subsidies in 5 years in the upcoming Electricity (Amendment) Bill. This is one of the several power sector reforms being proposed in the bill.

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

jhaat bhar ki State-capacity hai, dowry ban hui nhi, arranged marriage ban karne chale

muh se moongfali something something

[Sandhya Ramesh @sandygrains]

Excellent piece and much to think about. Answers why Indian citizens behave the way they do online, abroad, etc in a broad global sense. Banning arranged marriage would truly be the first best thing to happen to post-Independence India.

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@jamougha @AndyMasley @twst12612648 truth nuke

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

I looked up this story from Zach Carter's Keynes biography.

Did Milton Friedman really oppose black suffrage in South Africa? Not at all—he met and strategized with ANC leaders, was appalled by the apartheid system.

The source of this narrative: Quinn Slobodian

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@twst12612648 @luna_aireirl sponje has more bacteria than a toielt sear i red somewhere

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@twst12612648 ?? ELI5

[RadLib 🌈🌐🗽 @normie_lib]

@twst12612648 need some diversity in my oomfs