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.
That is the entire basis for the RealPage lawsuit. The point is that if the effect on pricing is indistinguishable from price fixing, it doesn't matter if the act of colluding is abstracted into and laundered through a 3rd party with an algorithmic system responsible for setting prices.
Honestly, I think it does still matter. The basis for the RealPage lawsuit seems to be that people inside and outside the company glibly considered it price-fixing, and said it out loud to each other. The didn't really seem to make the case that it was "algorithmic price-fixing" (Disclaimer: not a lawyer). You can only argue in court about existing laws, so until algorithmic price-fixing is written in the law books (or settled case law) you're gonna have a tough time bringing that up to a judge.
It seems you don't understand the lawsuit. Most of the claims are based on the actual mechanics of how algorithmic price fixing does violate existing laws.
you are not allowed to tell anyone how much you make so you might be in trouble if your found out but the companies share this info without your consent. From my POV make it all transparent.
I have had a career spanning over 30 years at this point. I've worked in businesses with 6 employees and F500 corporations. No one has ever told me that I can't tell anyone else how much I make.
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.
> Just imagine asking AI to instantly deliver the exact command you need.
How do you know that it delivered the "exact" command you needed without reading the documentation and understanding what the commands do? This has all the same dangers as copy/pasting someone's snippet from StackOverflow.
If you are using ffmpeg, you can glance at the command, see if it has a chance of working, then run it on a video file and open the resulting file in a video player, see if it matches your expectation.
It has made using ffmpeg and similar complex cli tools amazingly simple.
I'd even say that copying from StackOverflow is safer than using AI, because on most questions you've got peer review (upvotes, downvotes, and comments).
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.
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?
Some people have given me feedback that my writing seems biased because of strong words I use but then I can not pretend to be "unbiased" here because the amount of needless human suffering I have seen because of these asinine horrible policies.
Growing up we had no gas station in the 20Km radius. We owned a "moped" and we had to carefully plan our trips keeping that in mind. This was a not a demand supply problem because everyone and their brother owned mopeds like us. Some folks would smuggle petrol and store it in large metal barrels in their homes and then sell it at 15% profit. Occasionally they use to catch fire killing people and little children. The person would than be seen as a horrible criminal who deserved what he go for storing gas illegally.
Since a major trade highway went through our town it was actually no brainer to put a gas station in the vicinity but two people who owned gas stations on the same highway would go to great lengths to stop any new license for being issued, it reached to a level where they even murdered would be gas station owners. Eventually an even bigger goon managed to setup a gas station solving a lot of these problems but the gas continued to remain expensive as government taxed it around 100%.
Energy is the foundation of all economic activity. Part of the reason why USA is the most prosperous country on earth is because some amazing entrepreneurs like Rockfeller managed to reduce the price of gas to a fraction of what it was before them. India's abject poverty is primarily because of how tightly Indian government controls the entire energy market. From electricity to Petrol everything is not just tightly controlled but has the most perverse rent seeking policies around it.
Historically, the higher taxes on petrol was used to subsidize diesel prices, because most of the agrarian sector and transport sector predominantly depends on diesel. Worldwide, diesel costs more than petrol (though by not that much). Some of the taxes also go towards subsidies for LPG, which is a major source of heating in many house holds in India.
However, taxes can come down. Geo-politically speaking though, it is in the interest of the govt. that the consumption of fuels is kept to a minimum, as we don't have any significant oil reserves.
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.
The (income) tax base in India is about 5%; they have no voice in the politics of the country unless they are big corps.
In fact, in many ways India can already be said to have UPI. "Farmers" (verified or not, typically rural) have free electricity, fertilizer subsidy, regular loan waivers, ... which were instituted as compensation for a broken market that benefit political cronyism.
This also has the 'benefit' of laundering bribes, without taxes - indeed, a joke about the family of previous Chief Minister of Karnataka (capital: Bengaluru) was that they grew gold in their farms!
>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.
> I think if someone makes such party, people will vote for it as taxes affect them directly or indirectly.
2 issues.
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.
Also these taxes fund a huge number of programs that will need to be cut down or cancelled which will affect a lot of people (who don't necessarily make enough to pay income taxes). Not really something that any government can do in good conscience if they want to hold power.
>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)
The global prices of fuel globally has dropped significantly over the last decade however the domestic prices have not really dropped.
Also the prices of fuel directly affects only vehicle owners who are tiny part of the population. It affects everyone else a lot only indirectly, so people don't really complain.
I sincerely hope not. Excessive taxation on luxury goods is one of the few ways we can still milk the rich (me included), that's something I can stand behind. I just wish the economy cars were also rated with more reliable safety standards
>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.
