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It's mind blowing how much land the US has. I live in India and here finding farmland is not easy to say least, while I see lot of cheap land available in the US all time with much more facilities than a small city in India would have.
I've always wondered why America has not built many more cities with all that available land.
As someone who comes from India which is a country with lots of corruption when these people are caught red-handed often they say they did it for their kids.
Screwed everyone's life to ensure better life for your kids, a masterstroke in India.
In mahabharata war countless men died.
It was all justified by someone who goes by name Krishna in ancient text. Krishna origin is questionable as he's not one person throughout his history but fusion of multiple personalities which existed in past.
Krishna could as well be a master manipulator who convinced other's that God and him are actually just one. Many Kings of that time actually did try to become God the prime example was Pondrak who believed he's the real Vasudev. His version couldn't survive because he lost the battle against Krishna.
Mahabharata is not useful to for an average person, reading it will not enlighten you or anything. It's not a guide on how to live your life, it has many flaws, questionable ethics and morality defined in the text, bringing God into it to make beyond contest.
If it had anything of use, India where this religious text is most popular would be epicenter of good behavior, technological advancements, ethics and morality. Is it? No it's far away from it.
Before anyone questions my religion, I am Hindu from north India (Uttarakhand Purohit clan to be specific)
666 is number of the beast. I wonder how many thiest scientists would have refused to work on it if they were to use 666
I used to work in US and Europe and in last decade work life balance is basically shot there.
As a result I took my savings and move back to India. Now I've a small farm here, since the market is soo inefficient in India specially for farm produce and labor abundant I am able to work only 1 hour a day and enjoy rest of my day on things I like.
In US and Europe proportion of smart people with access to resources is vastly more compared to India where either smart people lack resources or the ones with resources aren't smart enough.
In most construction sites here we don't see the workers wearing hard hats
Well they do it mostly because laws are not strict in India even if they are its easy to bribe off the enforcer and this saves the contractor money while he maximize the profit.
It's not that average Indian is more greedy than average European it's just the enforcement system in India is easy to bribe away, so risk for not following proper safety guidelines is less in India and an open opportunity to save money on protective gears.
The true failure comes from average Indian not being able to demand better standards from those in power like Europeans have managed to.
Yep, less of a parts and more of a culture issue w.r.t. the lack of safety mechanisms, though the difficulty in sourcing quality parts certainly played its part in this incident
Who doesn't want to live longer? I even know a local welder who went to local welding supply store and all they had was shade 11 lens, through which he couldn't see a damn thing and now he welds without any shade. That's the state of affair in India.
Sure in factories, boss doesn't pay for protective gears so the people who need the job have to do without it.
Most autorikshaws are not driver owned, they are owned by some guy who probably owns a bunch of them and rents it out to drivers. Drivers get penalty left right on road from traffic police and lose a lot of money to repairs, rickshaw owner, fuel theft etc. At the end not much is left for the driver let alone for safety installs.
As people become richer they stop using rickshaw and drive their own cars.
Lot of people don't wear helmet because it's hot and humid in India and its really hard to wear it in 38*C in bright sun on 70% RH.
An average person in India has so many problems, the general mood is agitated and forgetful as a result. Most look for escapes and might not even be paying attention to things on road.
No logistics is no longer the issue. Arrival of amazon and Flipkart fueled lots of logistics companies, now it's all sorted and amazon delivers to even the remotest villages in India.
Banggood ships to India, they don't have everything that aliexpress has but I've been able to source stuff not available locally.
I get frustrated sometimes when the parts I need have to ship from China and take a month. But they are cheap and they’ll arrive eventually.
This remind me of the time when some local makers were ordering parts from aliexpress it was talking on average 30-40 days to arrive at their door and they were only ordering the parts that could not be substituted easily.
Then one day government of India decided to ban aliexpress.
Safety costs money.
All those masks, gloves, helmets are not cheap in India. Saddest thing is even if it's being made in India the raw material for making this comes from China and taxed by Indian customs.
If you've choice between buying yourself protective gears vs a new welder to weld the rotor which one do you think will be take him one step closer to his dream?
Sure protective gear can give him more time but most have choices to make, if he could fly this helicopter off the ground, highly likely he also knew about the protective gears yet he choose to not have any maybe because he didn't have much money.
I am also a farmer and inventor based in India.
Problem is that we do not have many tools, indian made tools cost 3-4x of Chinese tools and have 2x worse quality on average
80% things which exist in West (made in China) does not exist in India on top India doesn't make many things. Plus we suffer from too many middlemen problem, where the end product is inflated away beyond the affordability of masses.
Not everything is available in India, when I lived in US and Germany, I felt as if I was living in heaven I could order any part and it will be at my desk within a day or two but here in India you can have money yet you'll not find what you need.
India doesn't have any marketplace for makers like Ebay or even McMasterCar.
In small cities getting even the right size bolt, nut and screws is damnn too difficult let alone compression fittings etc.. which are more involved.
Surprisingly no startup has taken this issue seriously.
As the inflation has increased, labor cost has also significantly increased and more Indians are forced to take DIY approach thanks to abundant wealth of knowledge available from youtube and reddit experts (now even homeless people on streets can be seen chatting on WhatsApp with their friends, data has got so cheap)
Material availability still a major problem outside of the big cities with 10 million+ population. Most startup founders (people with resources, knowledge, network) also live in big cities so they don't really know what problems 70% of Indians face who are still living in villages, towns and small cities.
In India also they build solar vehicle, the students. Most of the material is Chinese, government imposes duties on these things and Indian students are not able to afford the raw material needed to build these as a result.
Weird thing is indian government imposes duties on products that India doesn't even make.
Indian mangoes also have heavy metal.
India does not have good industrial waste disposal so a lot of toxic stuff ends up in the food supply from vegetables and fruits and other produce.
Infact there was a recent study in India which provided evidence for this claim
People can shill as much as for their country as possible but please do not put others life in jeopardy to make a quick buck and fame for your country.
Also i am a farmer in india
One thing being overlooked is that in market most honey is Chinese engineered suger syrup and countless honey blending operations running around the world
Lot of people bee keep for themselves, I also do it for getting beewax and honey that I use for my self consumption and sometimes I'll take a jar of honey and give it to some friend when I am seeing them.
How is removing (obfuscation!?) smth from the DNA not genetic modification?
Now same is happening in US. Not sure why I am being downvotes.
This development came from amazon India as government came up with a law to prevent e-commerce platforms from selling on their own platform. So amazon started by selling off the equity on largest amazon sellers which were amazon companies to wealthy people in India.
Too bad no such projects in India despite having such a huge genetic diversity in the subcontinent
I live in North India in Uttarakhand and the summer has been pleasantly cool this year in whole decade atleast.
Otherwise north India has severe heatwaves
From my person experience, religious people have scammed/hurt me to the most in life and business.
It's less about not having good jobs more about:
1. Most want to start business and become rich, not work for someone else. Starting business is difficult, needs lots of work, even if you are smart and hardworking, have capital to start, still you need social skills which present generation didn't develop, so getting along with others and leading others is still difficult which limits the success.
2. Anything you'll come up, there are guys who are already doing it better.
3. Work hard for what!? Beyond basic needs, even in dating women demand millionaires, average Joes are treated like disposable good for nothing who women say are creeps because they don't have money to build their IG brand and devour women with lavish gifts.
At the end of day, most people simply will not be motivated to take part in such system now that internet makes it possible for you to remotely live any life you dream of living even if it's only through some YouTube. A lot of things now seem less enticing.
Even guys who society might say are successful can't afford real estate at today's price, only way to afford considerable land is to move away from cities but moving away from cities also takes away your income source.
All these reasons are why I don't hustle hard anymore. I just try to make enough to coast in life and explore my hobbies, not working hard to get rich or any such goal. Because I don't really see how more money will change my life.
If simply being husband of a woman who works for Amazon can help you acquire such information on which you can perform insider trading.
What stops from former workers at intelligence agencies from starting a hedge fund and employing all methods they learned while at work, to acquire such valuable information, trade based on that and offer others money management services?
I 3d print and make useful things for my house on CNC mill machine I received few months back.
At this point if a company wants me back in office, I'll go and work for the one which doesn't really there's no value in being packed in a shop with people who don't want to be with you.
It's other thing to orchestrate something by purchasing bit of inputs from everyone on team.
My question is why most companies which focus heavily on research and future are not established as non profit entities?
It seems many lifestyle startups can benefit if they become non profit entities?
Yes but even at current population level with 1.5 kid per women, it's still very difficult to achieve quality life for everyone
I live in India, even after working hard and making good money it's not possible to live a comfortable live here. There's no space for you, everything is packed up in tiny spaces.
Yet some people keep reproducing here, it's true birth rate has fallen in educated people but there are simply too many people at the bottom here in India so our population isn't going to come done anytime soon
One day I had to siphon the gasoline out of my car for some work....and I ended up with gasoline in my mouth
As someone who works in export/import business, here in India people make a lot of money importing Ewaste from foreign countries. Some villages in Delhi are filled with mountains of garbage brought from foreign countries, it's literally poisoning our under ground water, creating cancer but authorities don't do much about it. Stupidest things is, there are millionaires in India who live in the same place where this work takes place or atleast spend 5 hours a day at their factory and drinking same ground water maybe processed with RO but I am not sure how good is RO at removing heavy metal and other toxic contamination.
Delhivery kind of specialised courier.
Here I am talking about the domestic courier service not shipping to US for international shipping I agree we are still behind.
I also have export import business where I sell Chinese goods into US and India.
Many times in small towns Amazon routes its fullfiled by Amazon shipments to Delhivery.
Hardly any ecomerce service is using India Post now, most small packets are through XpressBees and Delhivery. Rest are through Amazon and Flipkarts own logistics like ATS and Ekart respectively