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Well when your top engineers get paid 25k sure you can do it for a fraction of the cost. Why couldn't you. Indian military already has tons of tech that if they
by x5n1 10y ago
Well when your top engineers get paid 25k sure you can do it for a fraction of the cost. Why couldn't you. Indian military already has tons of tech that if they bring to the civil sector they could use to compete with whatever. The problem is usually corruption and funding. The intelligence is there, in a billion people there are a few million outliers.
Heck most of American Fortune 500's are leveraging Indian brains to increase profits. Google is run by an Indian and so is Microsoft. There are Vikram Musks that are already captains of industry in America. Born and raised in India.
India is a country of disparity. Both intellectual and economic. That problem is not going to be solved any time soon. But if Indians want to create companies to compete on the global stage there is not much stopping them other than their own government and financial systems.
- eklavya 10y agoTop engineers don't get paid this low but I get your point. Do you have any evidence to support that the major cost component for space missions is the salaries being paid?
- simonh 10y agoApart from land rights, all the costs of everything are salaries being paid. I'm not be facetious. It's salaries all the way down until you hit land rights.
- eklavya 10y agoWhat about equipment/infrastructure/R&D/materials? If space tech is all about salaries I doubt what else isn't. If that were true wouldn't all commercial R&D move to India? It makes economical sense.
- nickserv 10y agoNot sure for all the downvotes, it's a legitimate point.
- mrkgnao 10y ago> The intelligence is there, in a billion people there are a few million outliers. Um.
- mankash666 10y agoBah! "The intelligence is there, in a billion people there are a few million outliers" That statement is suggestive of an Indian race that's generally not intelligent. Just curious on your country of origin and race, and source of this bias!