Comments on: >1 Billion People… http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/29/1_billion_peopl/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Maria http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/29/1_billion_peopl/comment-page-1/#comment-283546 Maria Sun, 01 May 2011 16:36:57 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6523#comment-283546 <p>Wow, kinda eye opening. As a "would-eat-anything-off-the-floor-if-hungry-enough" glutton, I still can't wrap my head around why they would rather go hungry. Definitely puts a kink in my debates with filthy rich friends who would never donate their hard-earned inherited wealth.</p> Wow, kinda eye opening. As a “would-eat-anything-off-the-floor-if-hungry-enough” glutton, I still can’t wrap my head around why they would rather go hungry. Definitely puts a kink in my debates with filthy rich friends who would never donate their hard-earned inherited wealth.

]]> By: boston_mahesh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/29/1_billion_peopl/comment-page-1/#comment-283534 boston_mahesh Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:29:28 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6523#comment-283534 <p>Two things, Ms. Bose: 1. Your report was dated in '04.<br /> 2. Second of all, maybe the amount of food needed to purchase at wholesale is less, and that more effficient food distribution makes it possible to purchase less. There maybe less wastage, and therefore, less food maybe bought. This may give us the illusion of lesser calorific consumption.</p> <p>But for sure, them Indians need to start building toilets, BIG CLEAN TOILETS; need to invest in rose-scented Lysol; need to stop defacating/urinating on the streets, and start eating higher quality foods and construct more aesthetically pleasing building.</p> Two things, Ms. Bose: 1. Your report was dated in ’04.
2. Second of all, maybe the amount of food needed to purchase at wholesale is less, and that more effficient food distribution makes it possible to purchase less. There maybe less wastage, and therefore, less food maybe bought. This may give us the illusion of lesser calorific consumption.

But for sure, them Indians need to start building toilets, BIG CLEAN TOILETS; need to invest in rose-scented Lysol; need to stop defacating/urinating on the streets, and start eating higher quality foods and construct more aesthetically pleasing building.

]]> By: Aniruddha Bose http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/29/1_billion_peopl/comment-page-1/#comment-283531 Aniruddha Bose Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:06:43 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6523#comment-283531 <p>There a very interesting debate going on re. the calorific consumption issue. The economist Utsa Patnaik has been engaged in a long running debate where she argues that India's recent 'progress' is a lot of bogus. Indians are actually getting poorer. The drop in food consumption is proof of this fact. It's certainly quite compelling. See <a href="http://www.networkideas.org/featart/apr2004/Republic_Hunger.pdf">http://www.networkideas.org/featart/apr2004/Republic_Hunger.pdf</a></p> There a very interesting debate going on re. the calorific consumption issue. The economist Utsa Patnaik has been engaged in a long running debate where she argues that India’s recent ‘progress’ is a lot of bogus. Indians are actually getting poorer. The drop in food consumption is proof of this fact. It’s certainly quite compelling. See http://www.networkideas.org/featart/apr2004/Republic_Hunger.pdf

]]> By: boston_mahesh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/29/1_billion_peopl/comment-page-1/#comment-283523 boston_mahesh Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:30:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6523#comment-283523 <p>Even in the slums of Bombay, the poor there would rather purchase TVs and cable with it, rather than an indoor bathroom. There is one economic idea that states that, for example, you double the food/standard-of-living/resources for the people, then the population would also increase such that their standard-of-living is restored to the pre-boom levels.</p> Even in the slums of Bombay, the poor there would rather purchase TVs and cable with it, rather than an indoor bathroom. There is one economic idea that states that, for example, you double the food/standard-of-living/resources for the people, then the population would also increase such that their standard-of-living is restored to the pre-boom levels.

]]> By: Zachary Latif http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/29/1_billion_peopl/comment-page-1/#comment-283518 Zachary Latif Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:34:57 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6523#comment-283518 <p>I agree with this:</p> <p>"For better or for worse, a deeper recognition of the poor's own agency might still be the best path forward. In other words every man is ultimately captain of his ship and even this often ultimately creates the rising tide. And, for Mr. Mbarbk, the guy quoted earlier who found his TV more appealing than food, participation in a broader economy isn't a nonconsequential thing. Even TV can set in motion the wheels of long term progress."</p> I agree with this:

“For better or for worse, a deeper recognition of the poor’s own agency might still be the best path forward. In other words every man is ultimately captain of his ship and even this often ultimately creates the rising tide. And, for Mr. Mbarbk, the guy quoted earlier who found his TV more appealing than food, participation in a broader economy isn’t a nonconsequential thing. Even TV can set in motion the wheels of long term progress.”

]]> By: MixedMetaphor http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/29/1_billion_peopl/comment-page-1/#comment-283507 MixedMetaphor Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:08:57 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6523#comment-283507 <p>In other words every man is ultimately captain of his ship and even this often ultimately creates the rising tide.</p> <hr /> <p>head exploding . . . .</p> In other words every man is ultimately captain of his ship and even this often ultimately creates the rising tide.

head exploding . . . .

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