I have personal experience having been in a low end research fab.
The bunny suits and the protocols are elaborate.
It was only for few hours and it was quite uncomfortable, hard to see or get a sense of things around you.
Regular users would generally stay for several hours to make it worth it. No break, water, toilet or food, probably come in with an empty bladder and empty stomach and stay the whole day.
From what I have read, it requires specialised training and intermediate if not advanced level skills and relatively high level of education. You work on the same machines for years and they pay is not necessarily that high compared to the trouble that you put in.
In fact, even in Taiwan the challenge is that people often switch to chip design or software instead. This definitely gets harder as people age.
It is the same system in Denmark. It started out with good intentions but has now been skewed to create more inequality.
The property tax in some new areas even in the suburbs is more than or only slightly less than the total rent in the some social housing in the center of the city. Some of these areas do not even have public heating.
It has become reverse socialism, steal from the poor and subsidise the rich.
Inflation is high because of supply shortages and lower production, increasing rates would mean increasing the cost of setting up new supplies or production lines.
Manipulating interest rates works when under otherwise normal condition the government wants to prevent overheating economy or to provide stimulus during a down cycle.
It is not immediately clear if the rate increases is going to help increase production or stabilise supply chains, perhaps just the contrary.
> Manipulating interest rates works when under otherwise normal condition
back in the oil crisis of the 70's, the inflation was high because oil embargo made everything that need oil (which was everything) more expensive.
Couldn't you make the same argument back then, that increasing interest rates isn't going to end the embargo and lower inflation? And yet, the then Fed chair did increase interest rate to combat inflation (granted, the inflation back then was much worse than now).
So perhaps this time, it's different - covid supply shocks playing out is not going to get resolved by interest increases. By increasing rates, the only result is to reduce demand, which is just another way of saying those who can't afford it will have to sacrifice, and lower their quality of life.
The current Modi government is held to a much higher standard than the previous congress dynasty.
Freedom of speech is much worse in non BJP states like Tamil Nadu.
There is a huge cabal of bureaucracy, media, academia, judiciary and foreign institutions that profited handsomely under the corruption ecosystem built by the congress.
They are infuriated by the people's choice of a more honest and a non-dynast like Modi.
Until 2014, BJP was the only democratic party in India which wasn't run by a authoritarian person. Current BJP is now the most authoritarian party where Modi-Shah call the shots. Can you name even a single person who is critical of Modi and still is in BJP? Who opposed ANY decision of Modi government?
If you think Gandhi dynasty was corrupt then why Modi wasn't able to put them in jail? Why didn't he press any charges against them? Again, if you believe Gandhis were corrupt then you should also believe Modi got innocents murdered. He committed genocide and there is no bigger crime than genocide.
I opposed Congress when it was in power without any fear. Initially I opposed Modi too but not anymore. Why? Because I'm scared for my life. That is the difference between Congress and BJP.
Question is, if Modi is culprit, why he is not in jail. Congress was in power for atleast 5 years or so, post Godhara. That's how the country is. There is no rule of law and for sure there was never rule of law for politicians). If you have lived in India, you would know there is no difference in Modi or Congress or anyone else. Politicians are gangsters. Modi has done what congress did early. Congress consolidated Muslim votes at the expense of Hindu sentiments, and Modi has done exactly opposite. He has consolidated Hindu votes at the expanse of Muslim sentiments. They are all same.
I wonder how was it possible (I mean where the courage stems from) that supposedly minority group can burn alive hundreds of pilgrims without thinking of consequences. How did kashmiri muslims assumed that there'll be no repercussions of kicking out Hindus from Jammu (oh they didn't leave due to minor inconvenience). The resentment wasn't build in a day(I believe Congress was ruling India in 1990). What did congress government do? Nothing. So to conclude, congress and BJP are equivalent.
Fundamentally they are same but their depth of crimes aren't same. Congress did appease minorities but it never was like 'let us kill all muslims'. Fundamentally and ideologically, congress is neither anti hindu or anti muslim. However BJP/RSS has always been ideologically against muslims. It is in their blood. It is the party of religious bigots. If you read the history of RSS, you'll find RSS was established not to fight british but to fight muslims.
There has always been riots in India. But 2 incidents - 1984 sikh massacre and 2002 gujarat genocide stand out. Why? Because these two were STATE SPONSORED. That is big point here. However, unlike BJP, Congress wasn't arch-enemy of Sikhs. After 1984, congress didn't do anything to hurt sikhs. They even kind of apologized for that. But BJP? It has always been anti-muslims (although Vajpayee wasn't pro violence) and under Modi regime, covert genocide of muslims is going on strongly.
As for Godhra, it wasn't merely against Hindus. It was against the right-wing hindu extremists who demolished Babri masjids. Subtle but important difference. Being Hindu is one thing. Being anti-muslim Hindu extremist is another.
And what happened to culprits of Godhra incident? They all are in jails. What happened to 2002 culprits? They are running the country and they have upped the game of muslim genocide. And that is why we are even having discussion here.
The extent of crimes of BJP and congress aren't same. They both are ugly but BJP is evil personified.
I am Hindu and all my family members and friends are staunch BJP supporters. And yet as Modi opponent, I feel scared. A hindu is scared of criticising Modi. That has never been the case during Congress. Even in 1975, people were able to oppose Indira Gandhi but that is unimaginable now.
And I am saying this as someone who has been hardcore member of RSS for all my life. I am now 44 yr old and I started to drift away from RSS/BJP since Modi came into scene.
Appeasement is bad policy either you appease to Hindus extremist or Muslim extremists. Please don't undersell the BS of Hindu or regional extremism in India. In Mumbai, political powers hate and beatup north Indians. So please don't project the picture, that the glimpses of akhand bharatvarsh are pretty.
Who the fuck are you (or BJP/RSS goons) to decide who is Hindu and who is not? While we are at it, I call people like you nazi. You are what people call right wing Hindu extremists. You are 'useful idiot' for murderer Modi. Your idols are openly saying that every Hindu should rape muslim women. And yet you have the gumption of calling me anti-Hindu. What a sick people you are.
Those RSS thugs didn't even participate in India freedom struggle. So why are they even concerned with partition or freedom?
If I am not a Hindu and hence should move to Pakistan, then you idiots are shedding tears for Pakistani Hindus?
You actually proved me right when I asserted in other comments that anybody who is anti-Modi is declared anti hindu/anti India and is unsafe in India.
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Rioters and protesters come from oppressed and impoverished communities. Nobody speaks for them. The media speaks for the rich and powerful politicians. It’s weird how the actual victims are portrayed as the wrongdoers here.
Evangelists, Colonialist, Colonial apologists & Leftists have a perverse incentive in theorising & establishing a framework linking caste to Indians & Hindus along with exaggerations and hiding equally bad or worse examples from Europe.
It would only be fair to look at the opposing views and reject or reevaluate theories that are on thin ice.
Jati & Varna are two separate ideas, "Indian caste system" is an import and a framework trying to combine the two.
Why do we keep using the word "caste", when we talk about Jati. A lot of Jatis do not see themselves as lower & upper and there are thousands of Jatis so no one is carrying around a dictionary to see where they stand.
People rarely talk ever about "their" varna and the vast majority do not see themselves or their jati falling into a specific varna.
70% of the temples in Tamil Nadu have priests from the Jati that built the temple and non-brahmins, there falls the idea "Brahmins" exclusively being the priestly class.
1. Sikhs & Gurkhas are warrior class, they are overrepresented in the military.
2. Parsi's are extraordinarily successful businessmen, they are among the wealthiest Indians.
3. Brahmins are extraordinarily successful academically.
4. Jains are successful businessmen.
Let us remember that 1-3 were co-opted by the British as loyal troops, given special concessions in business, and employed as loyal servants in clerical tasks.
In the case of [4] it is survival bias, being a true Jain is very hard and only the rich elite could adhere to it.
Some communities in India have had a head start or rather the barbaric colonial rule had pulled down much of the population to abject poverty and gave few people not in abject poverty a head start.
Equally there is a special hate campaign against Brahmins emanating from church as they are seen as guardians of high culture and scriptures.
As a vast majority of Indians have not converted to Islam or Christianity in spite of the hostile foreign occupation anywhere between 400 to a 1000 years, I can safely say we are all warriors and the last surviving major ancient civilisation.
The caste-debate is a two way street and is mostly kept alive by few vested interests. Among the youth it is mostly the "reservation" that exposes them to "Caste politics", as online education & private sector picks up it is going to be less relevant.
To be fair to Brahmins, as non-brahmin with a brahmin-like first name from Tamil Nadu I have been at the receiving end of the political-church driven hate campaigns that even teachers take part in.
I think we should not tolerate any kind of hate especially hate campaigns, esp. for the younger generation.
Regular users would generally stay for several hours to make it worth it. No break, water, toilet or food, probably come in with an empty bladder and empty stomach and stay the whole day.
From what I have read, it requires specialised training and intermediate if not advanced level skills and relatively high level of education. You work on the same machines for years and they pay is not necessarily that high compared to the trouble that you put in.
In fact, even in Taiwan the challenge is that people often switch to chip design or software instead. This definitely gets harder as people age.