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I don't know how I never knew this before, but I was confused with the number "1,19,000" in the article and found this explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system Basically commas only separate 2 digits after the first group of three. TIL
Yep! That's why you might hear of Lakhs or Crores in Indian forex contexts. 1 Lakh: 10,00,000 1 Crore: 10,00,00,000
It never occurred to me that you can fly somewhere, buy big stuff and have them checked in as your baggage. It's not something I ever saw in Europe's airports.
(Not sure if reason was more the price, or lack of availability of goods; probably a mix of the two.)
A lot of people in here are saying - oh I had to do this is Germany or Denmark or USA as well. Which is fair, but what irks me is that in India which has pretty high taxation in all departments (see Petrol/Gasoline) the tax you pay gives you ZERO benefit. No healthcare, education or unemployment benefits etc. Also on top of this, due to the corrupt system, if you need anything from any govt. agency you will need to p…
India's food assistance programs, free education, and healthcare are amongst the most used on the planet.
Examples from Wikipedia:
- The Indian public health sector encompasses 18% of total outpatient care and 44% of total inpatient care
- Free lunch programs for underprivileged children: "Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world"
- Universal healthcare targeted at underprivileged: "PMJAY and the e-card provide a coverage of Rs. 5 lakh ($ 6860) per family, per year, thus helping the economically disadvantaged obtain easy access to healthcare services."
- 550,000 ration shops providing subsidized food
Please do not generalize your own experience to that of 1 billion people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_distribution_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Programs_in_India
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...
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Yup. It's actually remarkable to me that the Brazilian government continues to add these taxes that, last I checked, were highest in the world. The original justification was that it would spur domestic manufacture of computers, consoles, laptops, etc. Obviously that hasn't happened. All it's done is make anything involving computing ridiculously expensive. I truly don't understand why there isn't democratic pressure…
Same in tiny Uruguay, but it's even more preposterous to say that they're trying to protect or incentivize a local consumer electronics manufacturing industry. As a thought experiment, you could take the concept of tariffs and apply it to an ever decreasing geographic area. Maybe my city should try to protect its jobs and industry and therefore levy a 100% tariff on goods made in other cities. Same for my neighborhoo…
I grew up in Brazil near the border with Uruguay, and we’d always cross the border to buy our electronics at the duty free stores. It was massively cheaper than buying them in Brazil.
Are duty free stores only present in border areas?
> It is no secret that the taxes and duties that are applied to imported phones are highest in India. The taxes are so high that for an important iPhone that you will end up paying an average tax of Rs 24,000 for something like an iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Mini. > However, despite the sky-rocketing prices, iPhone still sells best in India and the buyers give whatever price Apple asks them to pay. So for a business, that…
"However, despite the sky-rocketing prices" Not despite. People don't understand the Apple brand.
How fortunate that we have you to explain it. They're probably just holding it wrong.
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India is country with lots of poor people, so sometimes that money is not enough to have decent services for upper middle class citizens not feel like paying a lot for poor services. It is one of the problems of my home country, corruption is problem as well, but sometimes you're just paying lots of money because lots of people are paying nothing or very little.
It's a myth that the lack of government services are solely due to lack of funding or budget deficit. One of the original complaints in the thread was about government-provided healthcare and education. Government schools & hospitals exist, but they aren't exactly known for their quality apart from a few niche ones like IITs, IIMs, AIIMs. So is the issue that lack of funding is preventing these public services from b…
I don't know how I never knew this before, but I was confused with the number "1,19,000" in the article and found this explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system Basically commas only separate 2 digits after the first group of three. TIL
Only in India. Many european countries use , as a normal thousands separator.
Semi-related story: I flew to Uzbekistan through Dubai last year for vacation. Waiting for my backpack, I saw something that blew my mind: locals who arrived with me taking all kinds of TVs, ovens etc. from the conveyor belts. It never occurred to me that you can fly somewhere, buy big stuff and have them checked in as your baggage. It's not something I ever saw in Europe's airports. (Not sure if reason was more the…