New post today!
I have been working on this post for a while, primarily because I have lost the momentum required to write. But to be fair, even when I had momentum, it took me a while to go from an idea to a draft to writing to editing to finally hitting the publish button.
Anyway, as I always say, I will be writing more posts. I will start working on one right after I publish this log. It is a fun one, and it will be different from everything else I’ve written before.
I have been helping my local government solve some problems in our town, one of which is parking. Because of Kerala’s suburban sprawl and limited space, it is a problem everywhere. The roads aren’t wide enough, and the roadsides are lined with an endless array of shops and houses with no free space in between.
Our current idea is to find and formalize small parking spaces throughout the town. This is a cost-effective, less intrusive solution that we think can be applied to improve our infrastructure.
Anyway, Nitin Pai’s latest article talks about how paid parking can solve many urban infrastructure problems.
Learning economics has made it much more apparent that Marxism is a failed model. It had made intuitive sense, looking at the way things worked, but with some foundational economics, I have the proper tools and frameworks to dismiss the claims of the Marxists.
The article “No, Marx Was Not an Important Economist” highlights how his theories fail in obvious ways and is an essential read in the current political and economic landscape where Marxist ideas are making inroads into mainstream narratives.
For me, Marx’s ideas are based on two wrong axioms:
- The labor theory of work.
- The central planner is more effective than people acting in their own interests.
Once you start with these false assumptions, anything you build on top of it is futile.
The likeliness of the Communist Party coming to power for a third term in a row is increasing. What’s problematic is that the opposition parties are also communists—they just don’t seem to realize it.