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A System That Shouldn't Work — And Doesn't
Posted on 3 mins
TLDR - Summary: A typical public-sector role pays a fixed salary, is nearly impossible to lose once confirmed, promotes by seniority, and has no equivalent of profit to measure performance against. Predict what a rational person does inside that structure, and the answer is: as little as possible. That is not a character flaw. It is what the incentives specify. The issue Corruption is usually treated as a shortage of honest people.
Too Many Hands, Too Few Occupations
Posted on 10 mins
TLDR - Summary: India’s chronic complaint is not a shortage of people willing to work. If anything, the evidence points the other way. Every year, men leave for construction sites in the Gulf, queue outside recruitment agents for a berth on an oil rig, or cross state lines for jobs that carry no particular dignity, only a wage. There is no shortage of appetite for hard, low-status labour when the money is real, however small.
Learning Nothing, Losing More
Posted on 8 mins
Every year, India’s big IT services firms put tens of thousands of new hires through six to ten weeks of training before letting them near a real project. The syllabus tries to cover everything — a messaging platform this week, a data warehousing tool the next, a bit of machine learning thrown in somewhere — and covers none of it well. Ask anyone who’s been through it what they actually remember, and the answer is usually: not much.
The Unwritten Rule
Posted on 11 mins
I. A Puzzle of Survival Every other major polytheism the ancient world produced is now, in the fullest sense, gone. No one prays to Amun-Ra expecting the Nile to flood on schedule. No one leaves offerings for Odin before a crossing. The gods of Athens and Rome survive only as literature, marble, and metaphor. In each case, a monotheistic tradition arrived, organized itself, and displaced what came before, not through gradual attrition but through something closer to a systematic institutional campaign.