A trained bus driver carrying school kids in Jaipur, a state capital city of over 6M, gets paid $200/month.
A security guard in the same school would get paid $125/month.
The income for a mid career middle management professional in a good job would be 30-60x higher.
Imagine getting paid 50x higher than your maid or bus driver or grocery store worker. Now imagine how that would rot your social structure
To earn a $200/month salary is to earn 16 600 INR/month. As somebody who has lived in Rajasthan (Udaipur for those who are interested), that is an actually reasonable estimate, albeit on the higher side.
But no security guard in Jaipur is earning 10 000 INR/month. Even in Mumbai, one of the most expensive to-live-in cities in India, the security guard would earn less than 25 000 INR/month (unless they happen to work in an especially posh neighbourhood).
And where did you get that 60x number? That would work out to be roughly 1.2 CR INR/month, which would put you in the top 0.08% of all Indians [1]. I can assure you that no "mid career middle management professional" is earning that.
Even if I take your lowest guess, 30x, that is still more money than what almost all mid career professionals would earn in 10 years. I am convinced that you've never set foot in India.
And my cohort didn’t even go to top institutes. My cousins who did go to IITs and IIMs are making that much and more in their 20s.
I’m convinced you haven’t stepped foot in India in years because you don’t know how much salaries for skilled white collar workers have increased in the last 3-4 years.
The numbers don't lie.
You can't be that confidently stupid about math
Do you people even live in India?
Because I do, and every single person in my cohort of 35 year olds is making excess of $60k/year, most doing close to $100k/year even when working at second tier companies.
The FAANG folks are easily making $120k+/year.
Try hiring a skilled developer with 7-10 years of experience and you’ll know what current salaries actually are.
The ones who did go to top institutes and have top companies on their resumes are doing $100k in their 20s.
You have no idea how much salaries have inflated in India, especially in Gurgaon and Bangalore.
Just look at rents to get an idea. Rents in Bangalore have gone up 100% or more in most placed.
That doesn’t happen without massive salary increases.
To give you some context, the median in-hand salary of IIM-A last batch was 33L. These are mostly freshers with at most 2-3 years of work experience, i.e. 25-27 year olds.
You think in 10 years these people wouldn’t have increased their salaries by 35%?
I don’t think people here realize how much salaries have gone up in India, especially in tech, after the pandemic.
now let's imagine what might happen when genetic engineering comes into play. how can you argue about equality when there would be none, not biologically.
i find insects fascinating but I don't want humans to mimic the caste thing. we are though. and we will.
Confused by the downvotes. Are you in favour of caste systems?
