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- It changes a lot of things dramatically. The whole "India is poor" thing is in the best case scenario looking at things with a Western lens and in a worse cas
by vivzkestrel 9mo ago
- It changes a lot of things dramatically. The whole "India is poor" thing is in the best case scenario looking at things with a Western lens and in a worse case scenario propaganda.
- If you dig into it, you ll find out that most people are getting by just fine.
- This year during Diwali they splurged the highest amount of money like ever https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/record-breaking-diwali-sales-touch-rs-6-05-lakh-crore-cait-report-13626377.html https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/record-breaking-d... If everyone was really as poor as you guys describe, they wouldnt be blowing up money during diuwali for a festival
- Same for gold sales, same for car sales, same for housing, I am a bit lazy to link to these but I am sure you ll find the relevant links when you search for them
- rayiner 9mo ago“India is poor” by any metric you care to use. E.g. Less than 10% of Indians own a car. They aren’t as poor as they were in my dad’s village in Bangladesh in the 1950s, but they’re closer to that than they are to South Korea today.