{"id":743,"date":"2006-03-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=743"},"modified":"2006-10-09T18:22:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T10:22:02","slug":"741-of-earthly-strip-false-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"[741] Of Earthly Strip: False Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/earthlyStrip\/earthlyStripFalseAuthority.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Malaysian blogosphere is refreshing. Despite having little knowledge on a subject, suddenly, everybody&#8217;s an expert. When Public Works Department produces flawed bridge, everybody&#8217;s an engineer. When there&#8217;s inflation, everybody&#8217;s an economist. Makes you wonder, doesn&#8217;t it?One important thing &#8211; opinion is not necessarily based on fact. Especially when it comes from false authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I heard there will be a protest over the recent price hike. These protesters must have a short attention span, given their inability to appreciate how prolonged subsidy is bad for Malaysia. Funny actually. People demand efficiency but when efficiency is introduced, some vehemently denounce that efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>One frequent argument against price hike is this: public transportation in Malaysia needs serious upgrading before partial or complete removal of gas subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, question: where do you think the cash gonna come from? Answer: Resources from reduction of subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>What? Surprised? Did you actually think money grow on trees? Do you actually think, we face unlimited resources? Wake up and smell the roses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian blogosphere is refreshing. Despite having little knowledge on a subject, suddenly, everybody&#8217;s an expert. When Public Works Department produces flawed bridge, everybody&#8217;s an engineer. When there&#8217;s inflation, everybody&#8217;s an economist. Makes you wonder, doesn&#8217;t it?One important thing &#8211; opinion is not necessarily based on fact. Especially when it comes from false authorities. Anyway, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthly-strip","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}