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I believe it would be ~9 * 3.5(i.e. fx_rate/ppp)= ~31.5 cents and not 1.91 USD.
Only thing no one in the world can beat Indians at, is at calculating money cost and profits.
India's female labor participation rate is 20%. In China, it's 60%. Smartphones can help bridge that gap a bit but real progress will probably come from creating safe, well-paying jobs.
Seems unlikely this 20% number implies that 80% of women are sitting at home drinking tea & looking after kids. Where is it from? Is this formal sector employment? IIRC the informal labor market is something like 80% of the country in total. Lots of people work in ways that are difficult to gather statistics about.
Workers are more productive when they're happier, that's why we have 40-hour workdays, weekends off, trying out the 4 day week, etc. When workers' kids are cared for well, when they have good food at home, when they have a robust social life (women often connect their families to others while men are away at work), then they are more productive.
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Liberating women from what exactly? It all seems ridiculous myth making, considering what indians have shared here on HN about how much asymmetrical power indian women have available through the court system in India, and the sort of abuses they inflict regularly, the misuse of the assymetry for material gain etc. But yeah I get it. It's the new Democracy + Capitalism freedom making program they NEED to go through fo…
> Liberating women from what exactly? Take your pick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_women_in_Indi...
So I was right. We need to intervene in their society, and change it to liberate their women. Because we know best. And whoever doesn't align with that, must be supportive of violence against women. Shame on them too.
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more expensive inputs to construct and maintain cell networks in the USA. If you look at Indian telcos and US telcos, they have similar profit margins.
I think it's moreso that you can't get blood out of a stone (people wouldn't buy it over there if it cost more) and the true cost of mobile data distributed over all customers is close to $0.
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Yeah, but it's a serious waste of their abilities as humans. It's no surprise that dual-professional households there who hire specialists for the cooking and looking after the house parts have better lives (as judged by the fact that few women who are professionals will want to become housewives while the opposite is a common desire).
How is taking care of their children a serious waste of their abilities as humans? When you look at all the BS jobs around, spending your time taking care of your family sounds much more productive and rewarding to me.
Forcing people to have less children is bad (see one child policy). If people want to have less children voluntarily then you've found a way to success.
If data can be $0.09/GB in India, why does it cost so much more here in the USA?
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How is taking care of their children a serious waste of their abilities as humans? When you look at all the BS jobs around, spending your time taking care of your family sounds much more productive and rewarding to me.
It's not rewarding when those kids are the reason you are extremely poor. Population growth requires ever increasing productivity to maintain the same standard of living or people must sacrifice their standard of living until they die from preventable diseases or starvation. Forcing people to have less children is bad (see one child policy). If people want to have less children voluntarily then you've found a way to…
> Ravi Agarwal, author of the 2018 book India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy says that for many Indians, the smartphone is their first private TV screen, personal music player, computer, and camera. Agarwal compares it to the experience of owning a car for the first time—autonomy, privacy, and mobility.
Exactly right! This is what is truly liberating to the underprivileged.