I expected someone would make such response, and that is exactly why I was talking about people who already made it to US, and talk of that demographic. I by no

I expected someone would make such response, and that is exactly why I was talking about people who already made it to US, and talk of that demographic. I by no means, am comparing him with the guy who took a job at Infosys, or he couldn't pursue a masters or get a less paying job at startup for the reasons you mentioned. That said, we are also making this huge presumption that since his dad is an IAS, he must have have shitload of money for US tuitions and rest. This isn't possible with normal salary, unless of course he is corrupted, and I find it distasteful to deduce something like that about someone specific. It is one thing to say most IAS are not honest, and it's another thing to insinuate that this particular IAS isn't honest. We all try to make best of whatever situation we are in, and most of us (at-least I most likely) wouldn't achieve what he did even with 100x resources (lack of hard work, motivation, making excuses to ourselves). Let's not undermine that by saying "there is only that much you can do in life when you have n things demanding your attention".