Tuesday, October 6, 2009

A scene of the flood

Krishna river flowing over red alert
People caught amid flood situation near Wadi
Railway Tracks

All Photoes are taken by my sister who reached to Hyderabad from Bangalore in 60 hours through Rajdhani express and returned to Bangalore in 60 minutes through airways.

Andhra and Karnataka are facing worst flood in 100 years. Reaching Bangalore or Hyderabad was never so difficult. Both the bus and train services are affected. In this season of problems, suddenly air fares rocketed thrice the normal rate. Not more than 0.1 % of people of India travel through air route, still this opportunism shown by airlines prove that air fare needs to be regulated for making air services to the reach of more people.

In economics, collective bargaining, psychology, and political science, "free riders" are those who consume more than their fair share of a public resource, or shoulder less than a fair share of the costs of its production. Free riding is usually considered to be an economic "problem" only when it leads to the non-production or under-production of a public good (and thus to Pareto inefficiency) , or when it leads to the excessive use of a common property resource. People breed less as they become richer, but they don’t consume less — they consume more. As the habits of the super-rich show, there are no limits to human extravagance. Consumption can be expected to rise with economic growth until the biosphere hits the buffers. To be 'living luxurious lifestyle' and 'free rider' on national income is the worst crime in my eyes. World needs more proportionate than equal distribution of wealth among its citizens.

2 comments:

  1. you made a very good point of free rider here..

    yeh toh fitrat wali baat hai..
    free riders kaha nai hote yaar

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  2. Thanks joie de vivre for comments. Fitrat mein jab khot ho to, kuch nahi ho saktaa. Free riders are like amerbel, how long they may be but are without roots. And too much of them destroys shelther giving tree. Free riders are better called parasite in my words... I want to ensure that we must leave something good for future in the passage of time. And should not cease like most of us who took something away with them.

    Cheers for those givers who make sacrifice for others......

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