₦airaland Forum

bixton:
I think this amendment is an ambitious one.
That act you're talking about is not part of the purported amendment. For those who know and have been following certain events, that act already exists but there's no follow up from the government or probably its one of those half truths we like telling the populace.
If you don't know certain states took the FG to court concerning that act as it regards the increase in state's revenue......they spoke with the president about it and were able to come to a common ground.


A couple of months ago, the FG was attacking the oil companies for default, etc, etc.......
But I guess that's all normal talk.

Risky Kakanomics

Gloria Origgi writes

This is an application of the theory of kakonomics, that is, the study of the rational preferences for lower-quality or mediocre outcomes, to the apparently weird results of Italian elections. The apparent irrationality of 30% of the electorate who decided to vote for Berlusconi again is explained as a perfectly rational strategy of maintaining a system of mediocre exchanges in which politicians don’t do what they have promised to do and citizens don’t pay the taxes and everybody is satisfied by the exchange. A mediocre government makes easier for mediocre citizens to do less than what they should do without feeling any breach of trust.

She argues that if you elect a crappy politician, then there is little chance of progress, which seems like a bad thing. People do this, though, because maintaining low political standards allows people to have low civic standards: if the politicians are corrupt, there is no reason to pay taxes. Likewise, the politicians who have been elected on the basis of being bad leaders have no incentive to go after tax cheats, the people who put them in office. Hence there is often a self-serving and self-maintaining aspect to making less than optimal decisions: by mutually selecting for low expectations, then everyone cooperates in forgiving bad behavior.

This account assumes that bad behavior of some sort is to be expected. If someone all of a sudden starts doing the ‘right thing’ it will be a breach of trust and violating the social norm. There would be a disincentive to repeat such a transaction again, because it challenges the stability of the assumed low quality interaction and implied forgiveness associated with it.

I like Origgi’s account of kakonomics, but I think there is something missing. The claim that localized ‘good interactions’ could threaten the status quo of bad behavior seems excessive. Criticizing someone who makes everyone else look bad does happen, but this only goes to show that the ‘right’ way of doing things is highly successful. It is the exception that proves the rule: only the people in power — those that can afford to misbehave — really benefit from maintaining the low status quo. Hence the public in general should not be as accepting of a low status quo as a social norm, though I am sure some do for exactly the reasons she stated.

This got me thinking that maybe there was another force at work here that would support a low status quo. When changing from one regime to another, it is not a simple switch from one set of outcomes to the other. There can be transitional instability, especially when dealing with governments, politics, economics, military, etc. If the transition between regimes is highly unstable (more so if things weren’t that stable to begin with) then there would be a disincentive to change: people won’t want to lose what they have, even if it is not optimal. Therefore risk associated with change can cause hyperbolic discounting of future returns, and make people prefer the status quo.

Adding high risk with the benefits of low standards could make a formidable combination. If there is a robust black market that pervades most of the society and an almost certain civil unrest given political change (throw in a heavy-handed police force, just for good measure), this could be strong incentive to not challenge an incumbent government.

bigpicture001:
Paid writer....have dey increased from30k...?

Aaronsrod:
Otherwise we shall kill them as the Bible instructs.

JonDon12:
And Olodo, it is mud and dirt. Not muds and Dirts. Learn English please. Una no fit even spell the thing even though it dey outside una house.

21. Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation.

sarrki:
Lol

Am a proud prince and a full blooded lagosian

sarrki:
Chest beating all the time

Salvador1:
Imagine 50 public schools in anambra with 46 biology teachers.

Note some schools have 2-3 biology teachers

tk4rd:
SO, WHAT EXACTLY CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT.?

Shawnnn01:
If tinubu will be the presidential candidate of the APC come 2023, it is safe to say that he will indeed become the president of this great country Nigeria over your dead bodies, possibly over the dead bodies of your father n mother if they are still alive, dead bodies of your entire lineage till the 7th generation. So long Tinubu wins the APC ticket, if it will cost 20 million bigoted Igbo dead bodies to become the president that is exactly what will be sacrificed among you lot.

ConqueredWest:
Tell Tinubu that he will never be Nigerian President before any Igbo man even if he empties CBN

MrBrownJay1:
they had no pace, they barely managed a poor 4th (52sec off the lead) and would have been worse if Albon didnt have that unfortunate issue.
simply a DISGRACE!

MrBrownJay1:
this man is unstoppable... congrats to the legend!!!

now, can someone explain this Ferrari fuel flow stuff OR am i right to say that they were cheating and thats how they got their "extra" power.... and now that they were caught and banned (from doing what they were doing), we saw their true potential/pace (aka dreadful)?!

budaatum:
What I understand op to be saying (not that I read it all, and not that he explicitly said or even means this), is that DNA is the Word of God through which God created humans. [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A7&version=NIV]Genesis 2:7[/url]; [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A1-4&version=KJV]John 1:1-4[/url].

And Jesus is telling you to learn the Word of God when he says "Love the Lord thy God and Love the creations of God who live by you and your enemies even moreso". [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+12%3A30-31&version=KJV]Mark 12:30-31[/url]; [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A44&version=KJV]Matthew 5:44[/url] You after all cannot love that which you do not have knowledge of.

I would not offer any of this as evidence for God though, because to start with, evidence is image making and God don't like images. Second, God is a Spirit that no one has seen so why should the blind see God? Third, even Jesus never bothered with evidence of God so why should ordinary humans feel the need to go drag God from up in the heavens and present God to unworthy humans who say God does not exist? If they were worthy of seeing God, surely, God would come to them Godself and say to them, "Here I Am"! And fourth, "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth", and not in a science lab!

Truthdefender66:
Pls what do you actually believe ?

Goldencheese:
This is no brainer bro, in the hierarchy of spiritual beings whether we are in the flesh or not, it is God, man, angels and demons in that order. Lower or not lower. Being made in God's image alone whereby we know right from wrong and can create makes us higher than the angels.

They cannot worship us because worship is a singular right of God but they obey us and do our biddings.

Man is higher than the highest of the angels. It is a mystery that only God can explain because God's love for man is what the angels, demons and humankind does not understand.

Why does God love sinful me?

Truthdefender66:
@ Blakjewelry, LordReed, rottennaija, budaatum

Let me give you my final evidence for the existence of God. It is now left for you to either accept it or reject it. See the evidence below.

LordReed:
Spoilsport