They all just write code, imho - software guys are considered very low status and have no pull compared to other professions like doctor, lawyers - i never seen a woman being excited about a programmer haha.
I used to waste tons of time checking man pages for Linux utilities and programs. I always wondered why I had to memorize all those flags, especially when the chances of recalling them correctly were slim.
Now, ofc there are people are my office who do not know how i remember all the commands, i don't.
Without AI, this wouldn't be possible. Just imagine asking AI to instantly deliver the exact command you need. As a result, I'm now able to create all the scripts I need 10x faster.
I still remember those stupid bash completion scripts, and trowing through bash history.
Dragging my feet each time i need to use rsync, ffmpeg, or even tar.
This is good atleast now Indians will stay in India and develop our country instead of going to the US and contributing to a country which is already ahead in everyway.
>The (income) tax base in India is about 5%; they have no voice in the politics of the country unless they are big corps.
Excise on petroleum import affects nearly everyone. I am not only talking about income tax.
Other than this, the soap or detergent or even everyday products we use, contain imported active ingredients and they are taxed at some duty which brings up its price, manufacturer simply adds their own profit margin on top of their costs and passed it onto customers.
Even if most in India have never made payment to customs department, they've still paid considerable sum as indirect duty charged included into product pricing.
If you can just show it to people how much cheaper things will get, they'll give you a chance. This is because Indian voter is very unsophisticated, he will buy your promise atleast once to see if you can really help them by reducing prices.
>Excessive taxation on luxury goods is one of the few ways we can still milk the rich
You'll be able to milk rich if there are more mercedes on road, they'll need more repairmen or mechanics, you can be one and charge them for everything.
Right now in India, ultra rich proportionally pay less taxes because of various instruments available to them which aren't feasible to be used by middle class people.
We should shift our focus and let them spend their money, it will end up in one of the countrymen's pocket either way.
>As stated in another comment, most of the income taxes / import taxes etc affect a tiny fraction of the population. Not really a huge voter base there. Influential and disproportionately powerful - but not enough to swing elections I think
How can this be true? Nearly everyone needs petrol or diesel or gas, and government has increased exise duty on petroleum import which affects almost everyone in the country!
And custom duties also affect others, today if you go to buy a tool - you'll either find Chinese import or some very expensive foreign make tool or crap Indian make tool in most of the case. People need those tools, they'll benefit from low import duties.
Yes but most people aren't aware how taxes affect them even if they aren't directly paying any custom duty or income tax, custom duty is being charged to them indirectly (they pay for a product where the importer adjusts the price according to costs of which custom duty is a part)
Government have been tweaking excise rates. Petrol and Diesel is cheaper everywhere except India, Indian government made 30% revenue increase in exise during lockdown period when all other taxes went down.
Funny enough, no one in the country raised voice against it.
Fuel is what affects price of everything from grocery to your mobile phone shipped through Amazon, so why is government collecting and increasing this tax on people?
I have never seen any political party in India having "tax reduction" as their stated goal. I think if someone makes such party, people will vote for it as taxes affect them directly or indirectly.
I use amazon India, sometimes I receive broken stuff and I repair it on my own and ask Amazon India if they are willing to refund the part of the sale price.
Recently I had received a dented cooktop and since it was functional and my family isn't too much interested in aesthetics, Amazon offered 30% refund to keep it.
I think I am doing my part to prevent these products from ending up in landfill.
Amazon also honours refund and return request, but not all time I request it.
It's still better than offline shop experience where I've to deal with a real person making weird faces which I find hard to interpret.
I think we don't have a good way to transport energy which makes green energy slightly impractical as the main source of energy.
If we find a way to connect the world on a common electricity grid, we might be able to skip nuclear and go full green (ofc this ignores the cost of producing/disposing those green energy generators)
The beast is the country and the people in power are the ones who control that beast.
If the beast is powerful, the people in power can use the beast to harm other countries.
Is it unfair? Maybe. But what's the alternative? Usually killing the people in power results in power vaccum which destabilises the country and makes the beast go nuclear where there is always more potential for harm, an example of this is Libya.
Invading country isn't seen as good thing to do and installing your favourable party in power is also not seen favourably.
Are there other options? I'd like to know as well.