Jumat, 30 November 2007

Love Makes Rational

Do you ever fall in love?? i guess most of you ever. And do you realize that when you fall in love you do something that unusual and irational. In economic if you do something that you don't 
like and it make disutility it means that you do something irational.
Otherwise if you do something that make you in your maximum utility it means you are rational people.

But in some case, you do irationalthings. The case is when you fall in love. When you fall in love maybe you done many things that irational for you.
Like you cut ur hair short even you don't like it,
you spend your time to wait the girl pass in front of you even you hate to wait for long time,
and many more irational thing that you make when you fall in love.

It seems that you be an irational man when you fall in love. But the fact is opposite, you are not irational, you are amazingly rational people. Why? because you do something that make you in your maximum utility even the things that you hate most.

Funny hah? the power of love can make the irational things become rational. I mean that when you fall in love anything that irational to you to done become rational, because you satisfy when do the irational things just to get some attention from the person that you love, or even more you expect to get her love.

So, for every man or girl in there that fall in love, don't afraid to do many irational things to get your love, because you will get maximum utility to do that.

Selasa, 27 November 2007

Metaphorically The-hollow-worth-living-elysium

You know, there's a point in your life when you realize that you just had a snapshot of a frozen moment where the time stands still and somehow you're somewhere in between letting it go and longing for it.

And yes, I've just found mine.

It's weird though, the place that I know people sometimes miss, the imaginary place when they meet problems of their life, the place that I sure know doesn't exist, not even in my wildest dream, now it's just all there is.

No worries, no responsibilities. Just living in this moment.

This peaceful elysium where oddly enough, I feel so much alive.

Welcome to or tambo :)

Jumat, 23 November 2007

The Significance of "biasa murah" and "enak mahal"

Okay, I have this buddy pal. We've been friends since the third time i stepped my feet to FEUI. We do a lot things together including coming to classes late, going to movies, visiting pool, skipping pa1 and pa2 (we both and my other 15 friends failed in pa2), doing things considered academically dangerous and the like. Not to mention wasting times to play some card.

(I'm not gonna tell you story about us, it's the human behavior in term of economic I would like to analyze)

First, I see him (my friend above) as one of the "haves". Well, I mean he definitely doesn't have any economy problem, if not rich. Secondly, from the times we spent together (dooh) I saw that he consumed services and goods economically.

We once had this conversation :
"makan yu, terserah dmn"
"Sate mau ga?"
"yauda si, dmn?"
"ada nih, deket ruma gw, highly recommended"
"Oh, ok. Tp enak kan?"
"enak enak, eh ngga juga si. biasa murah"
"ha?"
"Iya, gw sering beli disitu, rasanya biasa tp murah"
*speechless*

Well, I'm not saying that he is cheap. But according to the economic theory I used to learn, people will try to maximize his/her satisfaction with the minimum sacrifice. In my friend case, he just wanted to minimize his sacrifice without maximum satisfaction. And in a certain theory, the decision of people when they meet regular problems (let's say getting dinner) is influenced only by what they think is the most beneficial for them.

But let's get subjective here, and please forget the ceteris paribus for a while. I and my several friends choose to pay more money if the food tastes better. I maximize my satisfaction by buying goods or services that serves satisfactory. And the I will pay it as long as I consider it reasonable (that's the consumer surplus).

It's not the only sample I use to explain (or question?) the anomaly of consumer behavior, I don't play tight. There's a massive number of samples in everyday-type-activities that I do believe are identical with the sample above.

The main point I'm trying to deliver here is, whether a consumer wants to maximize his satisfaction with a minimum sacrifice or whether he wants to minimize his sacrifice only without any consideration of satisfaction depends on what the consumer think is the most beneficial for him and eventually satisfying him (and again another term of satisfaction).


Proverty, Fate or Heredity

Last night when I watch a programe in some national channel there was investigate proverty in indonesia and specially in Jakarta. They said that the number of poor people in indonesia now is about 37 million or 16% of population. Seem its like big problem yeah, but the social departement said that we are success to decrease proverty number from 39 million to 37 million. Cmon, what a significant number 2 million?? And then they said that 16% poor people can’t be change, its mean 16% of population in indonesia are infinitely poor, what a shame. So who responsible of this number of provety?? Government?? Other lucky people?? Or its possessed by their parents??

They said that the poor people are people who have wage < Rp. 180.000, and other variable to check their proverty are :
1.the condition of their home and environtment
2.their access to water facilitation and good sanitation
3.their access to health facilitation
4.level of education.

From all of variable, I will focus on level of education. As we know that education is the important part to being success. And I think it’s the key for poor people to out from proverty. With better education you can get better job with better wage, and will help you out from proverty. But the problems are education is expensive and poor people didn’t care with education (their child education). So I think proverty is possessed by their parents. To get better explanation i will use some design.







Ups, its like more complicated if we use the design. The design said that level of education can make poor people out from proverty. But there some problem to get the education. Education need cost, and poor people didn’t have enough money to get education for their child. So their child can’t have better education and it will make their child become candidate poor people in several years. And it’s the primary cause, why poor family still poor family.
Its not a fate to be poor, it is a possession.

So if poor family want to get better live for their children, they must give their children formal education, which is they must strugle to get more income. Poor parents shouldn't possess proverty to their children.
Don't blame goverment, don't blame the others, but blame your self for love to being poor.

Cmon indonesian...lets fight the proverty
for better live and better indonesia!!



Rabu, 21 November 2007

Portofolior VS Focuser

Beberapa teman saya memiliki kesulitan dalam mendapatkan pasangan. Dan hal ini membuat saya berfikir apa yang menyebabkan hal itu terjadi. Dalam kasus ini saya mengasumsikan pria yang mencari pasangan ke dalam 2 jenis, yaitu portofolior dan focuser, klo ga suka istilahnya harap maklum.

portofolior : adalah pria yang mendekati wanita lebih dari 1 orang. tipe seperti ini adalah orang yang risk-averse, prinsipnya adalah " don't put all ur egg at one basket". Jadi kalo ditolak ngak sakit2 banget karena dia ngerasa ada cadangan.

Focuser : adalah pria yang sok2 romantis yang mendekati wanita hanya 1 saja. Dapat dibilang pria seperti ini adalah risk lover.

Kebanyakan teman saya adalah focuser dan ada beberapa yang portofolior. Dan walaupun saya sudah punya 2 tipe kelinci percobaan seperti ini tetapi kedua tipe tersebut masih belum mendapatkan pasangan, sehingga menimbulkan pertanyaan 'apa masalahnya??'

Untuk tipe Portofolior masalahnya adalah mereka tidak focus terhadap satu goal, dan menginginkan semua goalnya itu ada pada level yang sama, agar tidak ada yang prefer than other. tetapi resource yang mereka miliki terbatas, ex: materi, time, dll. Sehingga progress pun akan melambat, dan feel dari wanita itu akan segera berkurang atau hilang. bayangkan saja perusahaan yang hanya memiliki satu pabrik yang hanya dapat memproduksi barang X saja atau Y saja, kalau resorcenya dipakai bergantian untuk membuat barang X dan Y, consumer keburu kabur ke barang subtitusi. Jadi masalah anda sudah jelas, focus and focus.

Untuk tipe Focuser masalahnya adalah mereka terlalu focus pada goal tanpa melihat resource yang mereka miliki. Angaplah sebagai punuk yang merindukan rembulan or budget line yang ga nyentuh IC(indiferent curve). Ada juga yang resourcenya bisa mengcover goal tapi ga ada usaha buat memakai resource tersebut, ini bisa dibilang 'ngarep'. Jadi jelas masalah dari Focuser adalah inefisiensi dalam penggunaan resources.

Biar sudah tahu masalahnya seperti ini, mengapa saya tidak dapat juga yah...aneh..^^

Polygamy isn't a crime

Hari ini saya melihat baju yang bertuliskan 'Polygamy is a crime', hal ini membuat saya berfikir apakah memang poligami itu memang sebuah tindak kriminal?? Dan apakah poligami itu melenceng dari prinsip manusia sebagai manusia??

Sebagai pria dan mahluk ekonomi saya berfikir apakah kedua fungsi ini bisa digabungkan. sebagai pria saya tentu membutuhkan kasih sayang dari lawan jenis, dan sebagai mahluk ekonomi saya akan memilih titik dimana saya selalu better off. Ternyata menurut pengamatan saya, dapat terbukti bahwa kedua fungsi ini dapat digabungkan dan memberikan kata 'rasional' pada poligami atau playboy.

Dalam ekonomi kita mengenal 10prinsip dasar ekonomi, dan salah satunya adalah more is better. yang artinya manusia akan selalu better off jika mendapatkan kualitas barang yang semakin bertambah. Jika kita mengasumsikan wanita or kasih sayang wanita sebagai barang X, maka semakin banyak wanita yang kita miliki or menyayangi kita maka pria akan selalu better off.

Dengan pernyataan se'simple 10 prinsip ekonomi saja kita sudah dapat menarik kesimpulan bahwa its rational that man do polygamy or being a playboy. So let the man be a man

Selasa, 20 November 2007

As an End Can Be a Start

It's been a hard time for me not to think about the essence of life.

I am a reasonable man, my friend is a reasonable man. But we clearly found that there came a point when a reasonable man would swallow his pride and admit that he has made a miserable mistake.

The point is, in this world, as we are remembering the good times and the bad, or suffering the last second of our life, we do appreciate any aspects of life including the unsignificant ones.

As everything will be upside down, there is no possible way to run from it.

Please do enjoy :)