I love alleys like this.
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I am unsure how seriously I should entertain the current thought I am harboring. I am thinking of something that is absurd at the first pass but on second thought, it is not so. I meant to write this as a satire for The Malaysian Insider in a fashion that I have done earlier but given my tight schedule, I have refrained from doing so.
I fear I might forget this line of reasoning if I do not record it down anytime soon. And so, here it is.
Minimum wage can be redefined as a guarantee of certain level of wages to those who are employed at the minimum wage level at a firm covered by the minimum wage law. Consider an economy-wide minimum wage law that typically covers low-skilled employees.
In that case, the law discriminates between those who work as employees and those who work by themselves. This statement can be stated more convincingly as a comparison between, for example, a security guard (essentially a low-skilled employee) and a pisang goreng (Malaysian-style banana fritters) seller. Let these two individuals have the same expected income from their economic activity sans minimum wage for the employee.
Is there a reason why the security guard deserves minimum wage, but not the pisang goreng entrepreneur?
The discrimination is unfair and unjust.
This of course is not a call for minimum wage for entrepreneurs. That would be ridiculous. This is just to highlight some of the moral deprivations of the policy.
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[2264] Of how I see the world
I am unbelievably busy at the moment and I do not have much time to write properly. But I have tons of lame pictures that I snapped while catching my breath before rushing to places yet again. No rest for the wicked, so they say.
I need to update this blog regardless. If there is something that I would like to keep constant in my life, it is this blog. It has to be updated no matter what.
That is exactly how I see the world, literally.
This was taken in a library that supposedly has the largest collection in the southern hemisphere. But I have been to larger libraries with larger collection more ornately designed (guess one of them; here is a hint: it is the former home of JSTOR). So, I am not easily impressed.
Nevertheless, it is larger than my collection and it is comfortable. That is why it is one of my favorite spots here at school.
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[2263] Of staring at the sky
Do you know what I like?
I like lying on the grass during a blue sunny day and just stare at the clouds as the wind blows them across the sky, slowly. It makes you forget everything, momentarily.
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[2262] Of my god, it’s full of stars
Nine months after my first visit to the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, I found myself there again dead in the middle of the night. That has to tell you something about how I love war memorials.
What I like most about this picture is the stars. The small size of the picture does not do justice to the stars. I am working on that. I hope that some time in the near future, I will find a new template that I like that will allow me to post larger photos without messing everything up.
About that stars, I have never actually managed, or thought of, capturing them. I did not know it was possible with my camera and lens, until that night. The craziest thing is that I could not see most of the stars with my naked eyes when I was standing there doing 30-second exposures for nearly an hour.
Maybe, that says more about my vision than about my camera’s capability. Oh well…