M Dash Foundation: C Cube Learning

Category: ecosophy

  • Demand and Supply and the flip-smart syndrome.

    Some technologies are designed to fail you, so that you will want more and more of them, and you will be prepared to pay higher prices. Laptops and girlfriends come to mind. Lets just discuss the laptops. I originally intended the wrote up as a two line joke, which are not allowed in our civilized…

  • Airplanes are cheaper modes of communication than auto-rikshaw.

    Per km fare of a typical airfare now a days could be Rs 3. That for an auto Rs 14. If you were to (only hypothetically: spherical cow) continue to travel via auto for 1500 kms, you would spend far more for the fare this way, than for an airplane, in that proportion, apart from…

  • Socialism is no answer.

    Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 1:39 am UTC + 05:30 … Let’s not confuse between socialism on one hand and compassion, humanistic concerns and equitable wealth for the communities on the other hand, because of poverty as a value system. Whats poverty got to do with inaccessibility? Accessibility is such an economic luxury, but spasms*…

  • The academic sky of Asia.

    4. Rep of Korea: 14% organizations in top-100. Korea is 1.2% of Asia population. Result: Korea provides about 12 quality organizations for each percentage of its people, normalized to Asia. Korea provides 1 quality organizations to about 7% of Asia population. {quality orgs for its own people, normal to Asia; Korea 12 orgs/%, Japan: 7…

  • Scrapping Outsourcing

    Scrapping outsourcing will hamper all major economies badly, not just those who provide cheap human resources. The money India begets from outsourcing, a lion’s share goes into the elites, rich men and political powers. How? There are no small powers in outsourcing. These are mid-sized or larger corporates. So they benefit and who else benefits?…