
The Hypocrisy of Boomers refusing to acknowledge their privilege
Hypocrisy: Boomers whose privilege came from govt grants and subsidies now shit on Millennials accusing that they don’t work hard enough.
Hypocrisy: Boomers whose privilege came from govt grants and subsidies now shit on Millennials accusing that they don’t work hard enough.
A chain of events created our world of unbridled, unsustainable consumption that in the end resulted in the Coronavirus.
How the subscription model pioneered by electric vehicle manufacturers will transform the concept of ownership.
The modern deep-discounted digital app-based business model is against the natural laws of economics and completely unsustainable.
The two decades following World War 2 is popularly considered as the “golden age” of modern human civilization. The 1950s and 1960s were a period of legendary economic prosperity, when most of what we know today as the “modern way of life” was established, including the present-day world political and consumerist economic order, the (American)…
Indian “Millennials” were the first generation to come to age in a globalised India. They are the golden generation, quite in contrast to their Western counterparts.
There is nothing like smartphone shopping to make you aware of how things are changing in the country. I was doing some heavy-duty research to find a replacement my 3-year old Sony Xperia E3 Dual which with its massive 4 GB internal memory (yes, not RAM) was giving me some problems, to put it mildly….
Once upon a time, the Indian IT world was the promised land where milk and honey flowed, the sun was bright and there was a nip in the air, just like the weather of its most famous host city. Companies were hiring by the thousands and money, opportunities and H1Bs abound and everyone was happy….
There are a lot of things in the world that we obey and take for granted without questioning, many of which are natural laws created by forces we don’t fully understand: the laws of quantum physics, Hydrogen and Oxygen combine to form water, girls fall for jerks, Rahul Gandhi. Then there are some laws that…
Watched the financial-thriller-drama movie “The Big Short” the other day. As you might already know, the movie is on the sub-prime crisis of 2007-08 and resulting Great Recession, about four guys who looked around and predicted that the US housing market was a bubble which would crash in the imminent future, taking banks and the…
Towards the end of the last century, the world suddenly went abuzz with the talk of a new, fantastic, futuristic invention centered around computers that would apparently shape the future of the human civilization. Nobody knows how it started in India, but by 1997 “Information Technology” was for sure only the second biggest trending topic…
People tend to have this idea that if you hand out money to the poor, they will become rich. This is so wrong on so many levels. Of course there are many factors like economic reality of how money and value work and all at play, because money isn’t really “riches”, but just a document…