Comment on How India’s power crisis is self-made & why we could face another crunch during the monsoon
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years agoLike everything else BIG govt manages, electricity outages are the product of public incompetency rather than private sector. An example of private sector efficiency in India ? Cheapest mobile data in the world 9 cents per GB in 2020
India's biggest enemy is its own huge size. A population 50% bigger than Europe combined, managed by 1 BIGGGG ASSS Govt. You US folk know what happens....
Even the State govt's dwarf entire nations. 1 state has bigger population than Russia. Centralised power sucks
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I believe it is the case that the tech providers in my country fix prices together and only incrementally improve. Honestly we have shitty plans and a decade of competition has never improved it.
Oligarchs make socialism, imo, to fleece us better.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Question is, what kind of 'competition'. In the US, mobile providers have 'competition', but they work together to take monopolistic control of regions.
In India too, there is similar corruption, but its still a growing market and the providers will rather fight each other than make such deals.
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
As you know, I post about India a lot. I am fascinated with the place and also find that their local English language news coverage is just terrific, so I am drawn to it. The Print is a great resource.
How often do you go to India? Do you speak any Indian language or anything? I am aware that you are full or partly Indian descent.
One of my best dissident right buds is of Indian descent as well.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I am fully of Indian descent, but my parents moved when I was young and I grew up as a teenager in Europe. English is the national language, because India was a british colony for 200 years, just like the US. But in practice, the spoken English is annoyingly bad. Written English is quite excellent in media.
The Indians have a envious supply of natural resources - 3/4 coastlines, 40% free hydro power, a large english speaking population with median age in 20s, world's biggest mountains protecting them from China. If India developed 50% wind + solar, like the UK did, they would be fully renewable, with hydro as the base load, negating all needs for battery storage. They have a shitload of minerals, just like China and Russia. Just not enough oil, but I feel that's partly because they have been held back by politics and activists.
They have diverse military training environments - desert in the west, Himalayas in the north, ocean all around, flat plains as well as rainforests. Its why the US and other countries like to hold joint trainings with India, because they can get a lot of use from the geography.
So why with all these gifts, is India a giant shithole ? Centralized power. Huge, incompetent, inefficient, corrupt buereacracy kills potential. Indians would have been far more prosperous if the country was split into a hundred smaller nations that would be more accountable to their people.