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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by sumedh on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:41PM (#16020351)
> And also - we can afford couple of maids in a decent paying job

Which is nothing to be proud of, the maids are affordable because lot of poor people did not have the same privileges like you had.

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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by dominotw on Monday January 01, 2018 @11:40PM (#16049917)
Yea why do Indians always brag about having maids. That's disgusting.
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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by sumedh on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:16AM (#16050039)
Unfortunately the poor people who are usually illiterate are treated as a lower class.

The rich or upper middle class kids while growing up see that they and their parents can order the maids to do almost anything and so when the kids grow up they see the maids as a class of people who are not equal to them.

It becomes a status issue as well if you say you dont have maids then your affluent peers will think you are weird or that you cant even afford a maid.

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