There was a time, when one asset was freely available and nobody cared about it. You could mine out dime a dozen, and none gave a shit.
One fine some people said it was valuable. The price of the asset went thru the roof, even more than the average income of an individual.
Some people became rich and the others got into the mania, wanting to become rich. At one point in time, more money was made in speculation than actual asset exchange
One fine day, the asset bubble burst so badly, that many who had put in all their money, became bankrupt
If you didn't know what I am talking about, it was the Dutch Tulip Mania in the 1600s.
However, there are events in recent history, that could be similar to what happened in the 1600s Netherlands..
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I am reading this book, "Sway : The Irresistible pull of Irrational Behaviour", where it gives the psychology behind irrational decisions.
The first case study in it was the world's worst Air crash, the Pan AM - KLM crash in Tenerife, where 583 people were killed.
The more I read about the accident, the more I am convinced about fate and the role that it plays in our life.
Two 747s that crashed on that fateful day, weren't even supposed to be there. There were supposed to fly to the Gran Canaria islands with loads of Holidayers.
And they were flown by the most experienced people in their respective airlines. The KLM flight was piloted by Jacob Von Zanten, the airlines chief flight instructor. He had appeared in KLM ads, as a metaphor for safety and responsibility.
I love how people on Twitter are deciding, with patently false data, on how much profit a company should make.
I am pretty sure they would also be OK with the govt deciding and fixing what their salary should be and how much they should earn in a month.
Pricing a Vaccine depends on a lot of inputs. The manufacturing facilities, the storage cost, the development costs etc. Do we know how much it costs to deactivate a virus? Do we know how much it takes to scale it up for production? The cost of trial & distribution.
Probably No
But we quickly jump the gun on heaping abuse on a company making profits
And it's not like as if people don't have options. They can get it for free at the State govt hospitals. The higher end is for private hospitals, which looks OK
An interesting anectode from history that puts the Game of Thrones to shame.
In 1169, there was a family fued in the Pandya Dynasty with regards to who would be the king. One one side there was Parakrama Panya and on the other, there was Kulasekara Pandya.
Now only one of them could be king and magnanimity was not a quality in either of the contendors. As there was no Mano - e - mano type contest to decide who is the winner, Kulasekara laid seige to Madurai, where Parakrama Pandya was there.
As Parakrama was not strong enough to fight Kulasekara, he asked the Sri Lankan king, Parakramaprabhu for help. The name might just be a coincidence.
Seeing this as a golden chance to get one up on South India, the Sri Lankan king sent an army under his general LankaPura.
I heard of a case today which a guy filed against Maruti, for improper servicing of his car
The car : Maruti Esteem. The year: 2002
And the court ruled in his favour, in 2020
The court which took 20 years to give justice in such a petty case, now demands something in 24 hours
People of India : I have sold jewellery, land, assets, in the hope that I get justice, which for us is a matter of life and death. Please help
Our Lords : I understand, but our 3 month vacation is more important. Case is adjourned. Also, why is there no airport in Shimla
The entire enercise of giving amazing privileges, exemptions and extreme respect to our judges, is to ensure they don't succumb to external influences while doing their primary job, dispensing Justice
But nowadays, most focus only on the first part and have forgotten the second
In Kappan, Surya is PM bodyguard who saves farmers in his spare time.
In Bhoomi, Jayam Ravi is a NASA scientist, who seamlessly converts into an Indian farmer.
In Sulthan, Karthi transforms Chennai rowdies into farmers, in six months.
Farming is so much comedy to you va?
In Sulthan also there is an Ambani type villain who wants to convert all farmland and do mining and all.
He comes in the middle of the night wearing cooling glass to personally seize the Land and do fighting.
I mean why will an Ambani come and do fighting And all?
I never understood this trope in Tamil cinema, where an industrialist worth 10000 crore, gets into the field and do fighting with sticks and all with the hero.
And that too with a cooling glass, no matter what time of the day it is.
When we all joined Social Media ten years ago, we just wanted to have some fun, share info, expand our world view, maybe get into an occasional disagreement and laugh about it and move on.
I don't know where it all went wrong...
And I don't agree with the Politics part of it.
We are and will always be political. In the olden days though, difference in Political opinion was a given. But we used to overlook all of that, while interacting with others.
And there never was so much hatred.
Look At E Sreedharan. That man is a national hero. What that man has done will serve India for the next 200 years, if not more
He literally moved mountains and Delhi, to being people together and make India a better place
But because he joined the BJP, he was suddenly, wrong