The people I'm talking about are from states where 40% of the population lives below poverty line and the literacy rate is still at 60%.
Yet, legal roadblocks make mechanization unfeasible in India (laws against owning farm land beyond a certain level, making mechanized farming effectively unfeasible).
These roadblocks are mostly because of political reasons. Politicians know that if they were to make mechanized farming possible, they'd see massive unemployment and hence, massive loss of votes.
So the same thing is going to happen to any other technological advancement that affects this massive vote bank: it will be stopped at a political level.
Silicon Valley ambitions tend to fail hard when confronted with the reality of acute poverty and the kind of political situations it engenders.
Or do you just not care for those 300 millions of citizen?
I live in India. My country has 300M people living in acute poverty - less than $1/day.
These are the people who would likely benefit most from immigrating to a developed country with better healthcare and opportunities.
Yet:
1. These people would be liabilities in a developed nation since they have no transferable skills apart from manual labor. Most can't even read or write.
2. In 99% of cases, these people wouldn't even know anything about immigration, refugee status, etc.
Open immigration essentially helps people who already have the knowledge and means to immigrate. These are not the poorest and most in-need.
The Indian immigrants moving to America or Europe can have perfectly okay lives in India. I don't begrudge them for moving, but for western people to assume a philanthropic stance for taking them in is wrong. You aren't helping the poorest; you're helping the "doing okay" segment of the population.