Is this a contradiction?
I wrote Blame IT couple of days. Few minutes back it suddenly struck me I wrote Salary Trap two months back. Folks who argued with me on Blame IT might pounce on me and say I’m contradicting here. Honestly there are some common elements and there are some stuff which can be easily construed as contradictory.
I just have to take responsibility for not being able to put things in proper context in these posts and try to avoid stuff like these in future.
I dont think a person who earns Rs.40,000 is wrong in paying a rent of Rs.8000. Again this is my thought. It’s not a big deal if he is depriving somebody who was paying Rs.6000 so far. I mentioned this in my earlier comments too.
Say, If I am moving out of company A to B and relocating to city X to Y, I would rather worry about the safety and living conditions aspect of my new residence and see if my monthly outgo will fall in a safe percentage of my salary than in absolute numbers. I think this is what followed by the non-IT junta as well.
But, if a person earns, say, 40K and out of which pays Rs.25,000 rent + eats out + parties and thereby lives on credit card at the end of the month, thats salary trap for me.
In short ‘Relative’ is the core concept. I can just hope that people get the context of the posts as well. Lesson for me to emphasize the context better in the posts to come.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:08 am
PK, I get the context but again I beg to differ on your point (enna da ivan, vidamaataan pola irukku-nu nenaikureengala??):
Its definitely not wrong when a person earning 40 K pays 8K as rent but what affects the other not-so-high-earning lot is when this 40K guy pays 8k for a 3K worth house. And when the no. of such 40K guys increases, obviously the state of the lesser income groups become more difficult. Maybe again is to do with economics or whatever. Agreed but my point is that the factor driving that economics is the IT lot.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Ravi,
>>factor driving that economics is the IT lot
Adhuku IT folks direct aana reason a irukka mudiyadhu la?
I am as much part of the system as you and as rational as yourself is my take.
Oru vidhathula idhu kooda protectionist tendency dhaan.
Let’s move on