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Re:The brave new world of robots and lost jobs by leereeves on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:10AM (#12275288)
Americans expect and demand a lifestyle most Indians only dream of.

For example, electric power consumption per capita is 765 kWh in India, 12,988 kWh in the USA. [1]

1: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC

Re:The brave new world of robots and lost jobs by eli_gottlieb on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:14AM (#12275314)
Admittedly, the vast majority of India is nowhere near as cold as the vast majority of America. Americans have to spend energy avoiding death by frost much of the year.
Re:The brave new world of robots and lost jobs by ozborn on Friday August 12, 2016 @10:32AM (#12275953)
Like many living in the southern USA my air conditioning expenses are much higher than my heating expenses, I'm sure many Indians wouldn't mind air conditioning either.
Re:The brave new world of robots and lost jobs by leereeves on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:17AM (#12275343)
If we were willing to accept India-like population density and energy use, we could all live in the parts of the US where that's not the case.