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Economic growth and development becomes much more cooler and awe inspiring when you think of it less as "line goes up" and more as "increasing productive power of the species".
Shashank Nayak 🏗🚆🏢
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Shashank Nayak 🏗🚆🏢
@ShazCoder
Software Engineer. Interested in Economic History, Finance and Programming.
Mumbai, India
Joined November 2018
- In this house we believe "The Party commands the gun"
China is currently unleashing a massive purge against its corrupt Military officers, likely in a bid for thorough military reforms. The Party has the power to do these things, even against the Military. They can just do that. The Party commands the guns. - This was crazy to witness in real time over the last 4 years as reactions went from disbelief to shock and then finally settled at awe.China has become the world's largest car exporter.
- How and when did India become the main character of the Russia - Ukraine war?
- I see that the Indian reputation has now sunk to the depth of Mariana trench and may soon reach the core of the planet.
- The Indian government should build a giant statue of Igor Irodov. He did more to build human capital base of engineering in the country than most Indians.
- Because of the way monetization works here Indians are basically paying money to people who insult them so they can get themselves insulted even more.
- Vladislav Zubok may have single handedly destroyed what remained of Gorbachev's reputation with this book. I have seen the consensus slowly shift from "the Soviet collapse was a product of long term complex structural trends" to "it was down to Gorbachev being a retard".I’m halfway through now and this book is getting seriously upsetting. I’ve never seen someone fumble with such catastrophic consequences before. He led his whole country off a cliff for Bush to repeatedly embarrass him. Like stomach churning awfully embarrassing
- The Indian progressive civil society is irredeemable trash.
- This is a great demonstration of what is wrong with lot of Indian political spaces which is especially strong in geopolitical ones - declaring victory when the race has not even started and the contender has a wide lead and self-deceiving by overdosing on ones own propaganda.
- This was written in 1979 by Maoist critics of Deng's reforms and it is super funny in hindsight.
