Economy How is India So Cheap?

[irish_thug]

probably has something to do with the $45 trillion in wealth stolen from them over 200 years.

Yet another one of the world's problems that we can place firmly with great Britain.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

I've been fascinated with the idea of going there ever since I saw the long way round

you definitely can make a motorcycle trip out of it.
there's actual mongolian motorcycle gangs and they're pretty rough, but quite polite to foreigners.
and once you get out of the cities, there's basically this endless expanse of hills. some dirt roads, mostly just ..... nature. it's phenomenal when you drive around around evening in one of the immortal toyota pickups and you suddenly realize there's no electricity poles anywhere. the sky is enormous at night and you can see the Milky Way. It's magic. no wonder they worshiped the eternal blue sky.
one of the most memorable places i've ever been to. i hope to return one day.

 

[JonnyBonesPharmacist]

It isn't any wonder why all companies phones are in India. Just got off the phone with NAPA, I'll be damned if it wasnt an Indian dude.
Cheap Cheap

 

[irish_thug]

It isn't any wonder why all companies phones are in India. Just got off the phone with NAPA, I'll be damned if it wasnt an Indian dude.
Cheap Cheap

There is a nation wide pizza chain in Canada that outsourced their order taking to India. I literally called another continent to order a pizza from 5 kms away.

 

[JonnyBonesPharmacist]

There is a nation wide pizza chain in Canada that outsourced their order taking to India. I literally called another continent to order a pizza from 5 kms away.

that is nuts
Was the pizza right? Just curious

 

[irish_thug]

that is nuts
Was the pizza right? Just curious

It was terrible, but that wasn't their fault. The order was at least taken accurately.

 

[Lycandroid]

There is a nation wide pizza chain in Canada that outsourced their order taking to India. I literally called another continent to order a pizza from 5 kms away.

which chain is that ? I don't want to deal with that.

 

[irish_thug]

which chain is that ? I don't want to deal with that.

Pizza Pizza.

 

[nhbfan8080]

There was a street vendor selling some kind of kabob type food. He was slicing it with a long toe nail…

Its amazing how businesses will find creative solutions to problems once you get rid of useless govt regulations.

 

[Prutfis]

Indian IT workers are absolute garbage. You will spend the money saved on correcting all their code anyways.

 

[Scheme]

Shit you can put some shitty red states in there too such as Arkansas lol..

Arkansas has a higher GDP per capita than Canada. And way lower cost of living.

 

[Scheme]

Indian IT workers are absolute garbage. You will spend the money saved on correcting all their code anyways.

They most often strike me as people just trying to get by whatever way they can. Less so of a passion for tech, more just for survival. I'll agree that a lot of them are terrible, we just hired one who literally doesn't know how to do basic coding.

 

[Scheme]

It isn't any wonder why all companies phones are in India. Just got off the phone with NAPA, I'll be damned if it wasnt an Indian dude.
Cheap Cheap

They are using AI voice changers to remove accents now. So you may be talking to an Indian customer service rep even if it sounds like a dude straight out of Texas. Also I imagine AI will be taking a lot of those jobs in the future.

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

Thank you for actually answering the question. So food is subsidized, its super hot so you dont need fuel to survive and ppl can sleep outside. And there are no zoning laws so you can just build a shed and live in it.

I guess from a northern climate the idea of huge amounts of people living outside IS a bit foreign, not to mention illegal
Half the world thats not exactly doable.

That's just a random pic from google of an Indian slum. These people just got whatever they could find, corrugated metal sheets, some bricks, some plywood etc and built these sheds. That's what living with $0.50usd a day looks like.
Housing costs are basically zero.
If they have electricity it's possibly stolen. People in these countries simply go on and put a wire and connect it to an utility pole. Sometimes they get zapped to death but most of the time it works. Authorities will go on and cut it, but they do it again and again.
They may cook with wood if they're in a somewhat rural area where they will just chop down whatever tree they can find or they buy propane/butane tanks that is also subsidized. (It costs around $20 here and will last you around 3 months or so if you cook 3 meals a day for a small family)
They probably have zoning laws but what happens is that when you have millions of people without proper homes the authorities turn a blind eye when they start building these sheds in some areas of the city.
For example, in my country, Brazil, you also have these very large slums called Favelas, they're illegal but no government is suddenly ordering millions of people to move out. A few houses get demolished here and there so a new road can be built, or so they can build subsidized housing but you still have lots of people living like that.


Anyhow, in a place like that, a guy making $500 bucks a month is doing pretty fine. Services are cheap(since the guy doing the cleaning is only making 0.50$, the guy cooking for you is getting 1$), food is cheap, etc. He will not live in these sheds but in a subsidized house or apartment.
Latin America is more expensive but $1000 dollars a month would still be a good salary. However, to have a life that is closer to what you are used to in the West I'd argue you need at least $2000 dollars a month after taxes.

 

[Bballfan123]

That's just a random pic from google of an Indian slum. These people just got whatever they could find, corrugated metal sheets, some bricks, some plywood etc and built these sheds. That's what living with $0.50usd a day looks like.
Housing costs are basically zero.
If they have electricity it's possibly stolen. People in these countries simply go on and put a wire and connect it to an utility pole. Sometimes they get zapped to death but most of the time it works. Authorities will go on and cut it, but they do it again and again.
They may cook with wood if they're in a somewhat rural area where they will just chop down whatever tree they can find or they buy propane/butane tanks that is also subsidized. (It costs around $20 here and will last you around 3 months or so if you cook 3 meals a day for a small family)
They probably have zoning laws but what happens is that when you have millions of people without proper homes the authorities turn a blind eye when they start building these sheds in some areas of the city.
For example, in my country, Brazil, you also have these very large slums called Favelas, they're illegal but no government is suddenly ordering millions of people to move out. A few houses get demolished here and there so a new road can be built, or so they can build subsidized housing but you still have lots of people living like that.


Anyhow, in a place like that, a guy making $500 bucks a month is doing pretty fine. Services are cheap(since the guy doing the cleaning is only making 0.50$, the guy cooking for you is getting 1$), food is cheap, etc. He will not live in these sheds but in a subsidized house or apartment.
Latin America is more expensive but $1000 dollars a month would still be a good salary. However, to have a life that is closer to what you are used to in the West I'd argue you need at least $2000 dollars a month after taxes.

Ah. I see. Very different than the USA. Anywhere but California and maybe Denver those people would be IMMEDIATELY jailed and possibly killed if they resotst for building a house on land that isnt theirs. Different culture i guess.

Stealing power? Youre doing 25 to life in Mississippi

 

[badascan]

Pretty sure the "mosques" or some religious temples feed people everyday with no exception. Just walk in, squat down And they ladle a glob of something right before you...

 

[irish_thug]

Pretty sure the "mosques" or some religious temples feed people everyday with no exception. Just walk in, squat down And they ladle a glob of something right before you...

Muslims only represent a small minority of the population. India is primarily Hindu.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Muslims only represent a small minority of the population. India is primarily Hindu.

Even that can be a bit misleading though; I was shocked at the sheer, overwhelming number of different languages and religions running (sometimes literally) around. Even among the majority "hindu" there are numerous sects that are often pretty much just different religions