Re:The brave new world of robots and lost jobs
by kamaal on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:21PM
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As an Indian. Let me tell you the kind of inequality you see in the US is very different compared to the kind of inequality you see in India. By many a definition, no one is poor in the US. Also US has better infrastructure and economic opportunities than India for everyone. By infrastructure I mean access to clean drinking water, sanitation and things like roads.
US has more a problem of strict tax accountability for upper-middle-to-lower classes, while none for the rich. And lack of chances to breaking income ceilings. Swim lanes in US are decided in the first 20-25 years of life and things are pretty much set from there on.
While in India we still have people eating rotis(Indian flat bread) made out wild grass with salt once/twice a day merely to stay alive.
US has more a problem of strict tax accountability for upper-middle-to-lower classes, while none for the rich. And lack of chances to breaking income ceilings. Swim lanes in US are decided in the first 20-25 years of life and things are pretty much set from there on.
While in India we still have people eating rotis(Indian flat bread) made out wild grass with salt once/twice a day merely to stay alive.