tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post4851055332880202089..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: Proudly Made in the USA. Ha!Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-51944718054987694042014-05-13T07:11:28.403-07:002014-05-13T07:11:28.403-07:00Pretty much every smartphone is ... as an old Sein...Pretty much every smartphone is ... as an old Seinfeld line goes, "not that there is anything wrong with that!" ;)Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-4329592475470237922014-05-12T05:40:47.509-07:002014-05-12T05:40:47.509-07:00lol.. I was wondering the same ;) I had my friend ...lol.. I was wondering the same ;) I had my friend buy me an Ipod from the US and I was so happy and proud at first to have something bought from the US until I found the "Made in china" at the back of my ipod.Kalpananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-51976216387228435482014-05-11T21:43:54.583-07:002014-05-11T21:43:54.583-07:00Hey, you should do some back of the envelope calcu...Hey, you should do some back of the envelope calculation and blog about how much the government might have invested in you and how much you might have paid back in taxes. (I think you might be able to do this without revealing your income and wealth details, right?) That will be so phenomenally valuable for people to think about.<br /><br />A little while ago, when talking with father about a cousin's daughter having done awesomely well in the XII exams, father noted that the annual tuition fees alone (is this right?) at the RECs (now the NIT) is about 70,000 rupees. If I include the living expenses also, then four years of engineering at the RECs is 300,000-plus rupees? If I use the PPP method, that is roughly 30,000 US dollars for four years. Have colleges become pricier, or are subsidies now lower, or both? <br /><br />Here in the US, the same Republicans who critique that higher education subsidy is a waste of taxpayer money have no qualms spending gazillions on bombs and bases. No point trying to engage them on the rational logic of investment and returns :(Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-60063903298014494292014-05-11T21:03:25.763-07:002014-05-11T21:03:25.763-07:00Oh Yes, I made a fantastic return on my MBA invest...Oh Yes, I made a fantastic return on my MBA investment. Remember, those days costs were very low and in any case the government subsidised it like crazy.<br /><br />The government also made a brilliant investment subsidising my MBA. I have paid back in taxes a colossal amount over the years - their return on the investment outweighs my own. Way above what I would have paid in taxes had I not got a MBA.<br /><br />If there is a better argument for the state investing in education, I haven't heard one. The best investment any state can make anywhere in the world is to invest in the education of its young. A great pity that the US does not consider it fit to do so. Especially considering that it easily has one of the best education systems in the world.<br /><br />Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-1779735105148852422014-05-11T10:50:48.474-07:002014-05-11T10:50:48.474-07:00Ah, yes, marketing. And you MBA guys even schoole...Ah, yes, marketing. And you MBA guys even schooled in how to do it, right? hehehe ;)<br /><br />Speaking of MBA, I am sure you spotted the chart in the Economist on the return on investment in an MBA credential ... <br />(http://www.economist.com/news/business/21601884-payback-time)<br />Your own IIM-A ranks high there ... their alumni might produce marketers who decide on crazy labels, or package derivatives that nobody can understand but the public will pay when they go belly up, but dammit the return shall be high on their investment ... muahahaha ;)Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-7695721454258049482014-05-11T03:14:27.462-07:002014-05-11T03:14:27.462-07:00Of course, very little can be made in the US of A ...Of course, very little can be made in the US of A these days - you guys have simply outpriced yourself out of all manufacturing.<br /><br />Yes, made in China and filled with stuff from India might be a good taste of the future. That is, if the future is not already here.<br /><br />By the way, if you buy anything, look at it all over, feel the thing, throw it up, analyse it with a mass spectrometer, lick it, smell it, ... If something is what it appears to be, I shall die with shock - no marketer ever has presented a product as it truly is.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com