M Dash Foundation: C Cube Learning

Tag: economy and 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…

  • Are younger generations opposed to Capitalism?

    Are younger generations opposed to Capitalism? This is a guest post by Sabuj, who writes with much clarity on Quora and I thought this is interesting enough to be shared on this website. He also writes voluminously about various issues of his interest. Since he is very young, it throws a particularly refreshing view into…

  • Simple Rules of Economics/Capital.

    A fantastic bilingual website from the state of Odisha. English and Odia. Very informative especially for entrepreneurs as the name of website speaks of: bepara.com, bepara (byapar) is Odia for transactions/business. Here is a fantastic article written in Odia which I am translating partly to English. I am also appending the article as-it-is in Odia…

  • 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?…