Well that just doesn't sound true at all. I would definitely remember if it leaked every year. Do you have any evidence for this? A bidet is pretty basic plumbing, and basic plumbing can go decades without leaking.
I guess if someone goes out and buys cheap parts that fail fast, and always does that, then you'll get some people whose plumbing fails every six months and everyone else goes years or decades without problems.
A Xitter link that goes to the DailyMail as its source. By chance have any more reputable links to explain your side?
Edit: not only are the sources dubious, but they don't even refute the main controversy, which is that Qatar is giving the plane to the US/Trump Foundation for free.
>Trump would then use the 13-year-old plane as the new Air Force One until shortly before the conclusion of his second Oval Office stint, at which point it would be transferred to his presidential library foundation no later than 1 January 2029.
Yep. I lived there for the first two decades, and outside Kerala for the next two and a bit. The only thing Kerala exports is the workforce, since it's impossible to start anything in Kerala thanks to politics and high costs. I know because I've tried. Kerala had historical ties with the Middle East thanks in part to a substantial Muslim population, and the migrant labour force was able to funnel some of Middle Eastern prosperity during the oil boom years back into the state. That is in a nutshell, Kerala's economic story.
Speaking of the left, I remember being next to a protest circa 1990 against ... computers!
It's not clear what you tried to start and absent any other information your personal failure at it isn't a compelling alternative picture of the region's development to me.
I'm sure there are valid other views than the one presented in the article, I'm not saying there aren't. But as someone who doesn't know much about the region, you aren't really giving me more information about it, or giving me any reasons to take your view more seriously than the one presented in the article.
You can completely ignore what I said about my personal experience. The rest of it is still valid, and please read the child comment I posted on the same sub-thread.
Basically, Kerala exports a workforce because it can't produce or export anything else. At roughly a third of the GDP (in 2012 according to Wikipedia), it's a remittance based economy. Someone commented that remittances are a smaller part of the economy of late (and that might well be true), but in the last decade or so Kerala is also heavily in debt.
I think the main point of the opposition argument is that it's Kerala's religious demographics that led the state to be dependent on Middle Eastern remmitence. If you did a demographic survey of South Asians in the Middle East, the vast majority of them would be Muslim. It's a good way to reach a lower middle income level, but it's not achieving the type of growth needed to build industry and service.
Ten years back remittance was 31% of the GDP [1] - a massive number. It might have declined, but the tiny state accounts for 20% of India's inward remittance while holding a mere 3% of the nation's population. Wikipedia says that 3 million people are working abroad (mostly in the middle East), which is like 10 percent of the population (what percentage of the youth will that be?). Also, a very significant number of Malayalees work in neighbouring states - again due to Kerala having no industries.
I don't have numbers for the last ten years, but if remittance has gone down, it is also neck deep in debt. I am in Kerala quite frequently, and can confirm that there are no industries there - except for tourism, and some IT which is relatively miniscule compared to neighbouring states.
"The state has one of the highest concentrations of startups". I laughed out loud at this one. Of all the half-truths peddled in that article, this was easily the most hilarious and egregious.
Whatever it is I am not buying it. Kerala is notoriously an incredibly hard place to do business in, so a line like this needs some real hard stats to back it up.
Crime statistics are because Kerala Police isn’t as corrupt and registers more crimes compared to rest of India. It’s a good thing as most crimes goes unreported in India as police are corrupted in rest of India.
The region has remnants of socialist ideas.
The article, however, is indeed a puff piece on the vastly dominant economic theory, which is, as it turns out, not "fresh" at all.
I will say however that I think it's unfair to call professor Roy a neoliberal. Being a neoliberal is merely the expectation for most economic "theorists", but his vocal apologetics for imperalism and colonialism is not.
> Indian Marxists viciously attacked the CEHI, arguing the imperial state's aim was to extract surplus from India, that it withheld the capacity to do good in famines, and deployed the capacity to cause harm at all other times.
> In this void, blog and trade-book writers moved in with a leftist-nationalist political agenda posing as economic history. Most of their claims can be dismissed by subjecting them to the 1980s test: Can economic change be read as an effect of the Empire? The answer remains: No.
This is indeed a very powerful purity test, "Do your claim go against my utterly ahistorical narrative? If not, then I can comfortably dismiss them without addressing them."
> That India's trade surplus meant Britain looted India is bad logic because the surplus did not mean theft but the purchase of services. “Millions of Indians died of policy-induced famines” (Hickel) is bad logic by assuming infinite state capacity was deliberately withheld.
This one is quite rich aswell, it's just blunt unapologetic imperalism denial. It's bad logic because the logic bothers me.
I mean it just goes on and that's just his most recent tweets.
why is Ycombinator not funding a Linkedin competitor! Everybody is complaining about linkedin but no alternative. ycombinator should be one funding disruptive startups that take on established players, but instead funding 100 similar startups doing the same thing.
Funds hold 67.73% of Apple (AAPL) stock and they just rubber stamp managment decisions. Rise of passive index funds have made it easy for management, they are passive managers. When is Tim Cook getting fired?
Interesting. I haven’t really thought about the effect on managers. So basically passive fund managers don’t demand performance from executives like Tim Cook?
Complete hardware + software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally. The actual model, no distillations, and Q8 quantization for full quality. Total cost, $6,000. All download and part links below:
Oversupply of CS grads is another reason for unemployment and wage deflation of software engineers. Employers want more H1B when undergrad US citizen students from top universities are finding tough to get a job!
possible solution is to give H1B to the top 85k applicants in the order of salary. This will prevent employers favoring H1B because of low salary and will give chance to those who really deserve.
Just like he can't deport 10 million illegals either.
The reason is simple math.
Current estimates are it will cost $10K to find, detain, process and deport one illegal.
For every employed illegal deported, his Trump voting employer will lose $1000's in productivity, income and other costs associated with finding and hiring a replacement. Since some illegals are not employed (wives, children, etc.), let's conservatively assume a flat $1000 per person in lost productivity.
Thus, the conservative total cost for Trump's deportation boondoggle as stated will be:
10M x $10K X $1K = $1 X 10^14 = $100 trillion.
By comparison, total annual budget of the US government is only around $6 trillion. Total GDP for 2023 was less than $30 trillion.
Needless to say, millions of workers and $100 trillion taken out of the US economy will trigger a global recession and is simply not practical or reasonable. In other words, you were lied to. It ain't happening --- except for perhaps a few examples done mainly for show.
You did your math wrong, for the argument you are making you need to add the $10K and $1K (or whatever number you choose for the lost productivity), not multiply them.
This will cost money too and will only help with "finding" the productive illegals that are employed.
You still have to pay to send the cavalry to round them up, detain and feed them until you can process them and transport them back to their native country.
Guess who ultimately pays the price for all this --- US citizens --- in more ways than one.
Bottom line: It's expensive to remove lots of low cost labor and wreck your economy all at the same time. But I'm sure Trump will figure it all out. He's a business genius you know.
Laws only matter if you can enforce them. That is the somewhat concerning situation; he’s going to pursue an agenda with few checks and balances. “Oh, it’s illegal? So what?” If there are no consequences, the law is meaningless.
one possible option to prevent ghost job posting for visa is to force employers to share the hiring month, salary, qualification and annonymized resume of the H1B/GC employer with all those they interviewed or applied. This will give closure to those applicants that didn't get the job.
I've encountered this before with absurdly high job requirements paired with a low-moderate commensurate salary. While on call with an HR rep for a listing I had loosely met, I deduced from their responses it was done so the company could claim their talent needs aren't being met domestically, and thus would file for more H-1B or H-2B work authorization permits. This is rife with its own issues of non-transparency and offshoring, where I likely encountered it in the later stages[0] and was being paid lip service to the process without the intent of hiring.
I suspect a lot of the frustration people describe comes from this combined with presently high demand for remote tech jobs. Back when I was job searching in late 2023, I noticed there would be _hundreds_ of applicants for even the worst postings (e.g., paying 50% market rate). Nobody is reading that many resumes, and in the unlikely case they are, that person probably lacks the expertise needed to evaluate candidates. Screeners are starting with resumes recommended to them and binning the rest.
