Thursday, October 16, 2008

About Software package and Welfare schemes: A Weird but relevant post

There are some uncanny similarities between a welfare scheme announced by a ruling party for the people and a software package.

A software that one purchases typically has a lot more features than what we actually know or what we end up using. Many features are such that we know about them but hardly use them for our needs. An average user of any software is likely to be using about 30 to 40 % of the features; will be aware of about 60% of the features; will find about 20% of the features not useful to them.

A welfare scheme is designed for a very big pool of people, sometimes may include the entire middle class population of the country. Some people do not want the scheme at all, some find it useful only to some extent, some find it useful and may well use it but are not eligible for it. And finally, many are either not aware of it and even do not know where to get more information.

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