On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:20 PM, lukhman_khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Just for a moment we imagine we have two candidates - > > one candidate promises free TVs, laptop for 10K, > million ITES jobs in rural areas, etc. > > Another candidate promises good governance, and only that. > > If you are a farmer with a Masters Degree in Farming who will you vote? > > If you are a worker in a factory aged 22, who cant read or write, who will > you vote? Lukhman, it is rational for both people (and any of us) to take the free TV and the cheap laptop. (Mine has started making a whistling noise and I do need a new one.) That promise is far more credible than the other one, as things stand. Also, I'd probably take a concentrated benefit that comes straight to me over a diffused one that is probably chimerical anyway. Some voters might choose to be more idealistic, but I don't imagine education will have anything to do with that. -- Amit Varma http://www.indiauncut.com
