Shaukat Tarin’s cute selfie and un necessary shade - this week in Pak- istan’s business and economics twitterverse

Shaukat Tarin’s cute selfie and unnecessary shade

this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse

It 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.

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!

Shots fired

Just throwing some unnecessary (or perhaps very necessary) shade. If you know you know.

A plummeting currency? Turkey is beating us by a mile.

Unnecessary shade and NFTs

With the holiday season around the corner, I’m stuck wondering how many kids will get NFTs this year? And how many of them will cry immediately compared to how many crypto-bros will be initially very excited but eventually crying a few months or years down the line. It is nice seeing the IMF team explore Karachi and the rest of Pakistan. But Bilal’s tweet made us laugh. This is the same week we reached a staff level agreement. Maybe the beach did its job? Never underestimate the whimsical beauty of the ocean.

Three Cs of the PSX

The 5 Cs of brand development? Pfft. Nah, we’ve got the 3 Cs of the PSX. We’re not going to type them here because we don’t really swear through these pages. But feel free to take a guess and make your own 3Cs!