The hotter the waitresses, the weaker the economy. In flush times, there is a robust market for hotness. Selling everything from condos to premium vodka is enhanced by proximity to pretty young people (of both sexes) who get paid for providing this service. That leaves more-punishing work, like waiting tables, to those with less striking genetic gifts...
just added to kottke.org 's expanding list of odd economic indicators. Unfortunately, most our waiters being of the teenage boy variety, using that index here will get you trouble from all sorts of places. I wonder if we can come up with our own customized Sri Lankan economic indicators? like
The Kasippu index; the better off the economy, the lesser the consumption of illicit liquor.
The Bus Traffic index; The better off people are, the lesser demand for buses, the lesser amount of buses on the roads. Divisions based on routes included.
This also leads up to
The polite tuk tuk driver index; the better off the economy, the more people use tuk tuks, the lesser incentive for drivers to be polite.
The Street Food and Drink basket volume index; the better off the economy, higher the tendency for people to go out; translating into higher sales of street food items like vadai, acchaaru, king coconut, faluda, lime juice etc.
Anything else?
2 comments:
:D good one...
about time we adopt some of those indexes and move away from conventional economy
Well just thought
Mobile phone index : better off the people are, the usage of mobile phone decrease and more the mobile price go down..
Or am i just confused :)
hmmmm i think usage would probably increase the better off the people are? but the more lucrative the market the higher the competition resulting in an decrease of prices!
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