India and Pakistan are overall poor but there’s also a vast upper and middle class with wealth and those are the people buying subscriptions to the economist. They have equivalent wealth to, for example, Bay Area tech industry managers but have much better lives than in the USA with private drivers, live-in chefs, live-in child care… these are my friends and I know that they can pay more than me for a subscription to the economist.
The best piece of writing about the Economist you've ever read is a piece by an author who admits that "until last week, I had not read The Economist since high school"? This is the author whose opinion on the Economist you trust?
I haven’t read the piece, but if someone makes a well-reasoned argument, it doesn’t matter who they are or what credentials they hold.
It’s equally as meek a counter-argument as, “trust me because I hold degrees in this topic.” Good. Then it should be easy for you to make a well-reasoned argument.
Many years ago the Economist charged just $50/year everywhere for the Digital edition. They gradually increased it though.
Then at one point changed it to a reflect the local price of the print edition in your country. I live in NZ so price was relatively high. To reduce my costs I changed my address to the US (my employer at the time).
Here is a post I did 10 years ago on their pricing:
Companies have different pricing in different markets... based on the differing consumer behaviors and maximizing volume/price dynamics. This is business 101
India and Pakistan are overall poor but there’s also a vast upper and middle class with wealth and those are the people buying subscriptions to the economist. They have equivalent wealth to, for example, Bay Area tech industry managers but have much better lives than in the USA with private drivers, live-in chefs, live-in child care… these are my friends and I know that they can pay more than me for a subscription to the economist.
> India and Pakistan are overall poor but there’s also a vast upper and middle class with wealth
I mean... kinda? Switzerland has 9 million total people, and more millionaires than India and Pakistan combined.
But anyway this post is saying that Indians have the cheapest subscriptions, not taking purchasing power into account.
This post in current affairs[0] remains the best piece of writing about the Economist that I've ever read.
[0] - https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/05/how-the-economis...
The best piece of writing about the Economist you've ever read is a piece by an author who admits that "until last week, I had not read The Economist since high school"? This is the author whose opinion on the Economist you trust?
I haven’t read the piece, but if someone makes a well-reasoned argument, it doesn’t matter who they are or what credentials they hold.
It’s equally as meek a counter-argument as, “trust me because I hold degrees in this topic.” Good. Then it should be easy for you to make a well-reasoned argument.
Many years ago the Economist charged just $50/year everywhere for the Digital edition. They gradually increased it though.
Then at one point changed it to a reflect the local price of the print edition in your country. I live in NZ so price was relatively high. To reduce my costs I changed my address to the US (my employer at the time).
Here is a post I did 10 years ago on their pricing:
https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2015/03/parallel-importing-vs-t...
Companies have different pricing in different markets... based on the differing consumer behaviors and maximizing volume/price dynamics. This is business 101
since you seemed to be business 101 guru make some sense out of this for us (if you read it…)
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