Shaukat Tarin’s cute selfie and unnecessary shade this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse
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t was a busy week in terms of social media full of meltdowns, shocking statements, and some of the silliest discourse we have seen in a while. Despite that, we have dug through the vast mess that is the twitterverse and brought to you serious tweets about NFTs, petrol lines, selfies, and the effects of the Karachi coast. Ariba Shahid brings you all this and more in this week’s social media roundup.
Shots fired
Testing maths
No matter how messed up our economy is or has been, at least we’ve almost always been better than Argentina and Venezuela. Oh and Zimbabwe. We’ve done relatively better than them. {Editor’s note: On a serious note, if the exchange rate gets that bad, how do you even do math for your daily hisab kitab? If prices were in the billions …. even Profit’s otherwise math-sharp reporters might have a hard time figuring out their bills and discounts.}
Feeling for the underdog
Needless to say the weightage of food, rent and education in a poor man’s expenditure is more than for the rich. While being the richest is a rat race, we can’t help but feel bad for the underdog. Can’t wait for Rohail Hayatt to pipe in on this and tell us how difficult it is to be rich and famous and how much peace there is in being poor because it means having nothing. Thanks for spelling that out for us Rohail!
SOCIAL MEDIA ROUNDUP
Just throwing some unnecessary (or perhaps very necessary) shade. If you know you know.
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