Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
Meanwhile, in India, that salary is on the higher end for an software engineers when converted to ruppees, and above what 99.99% of what the average Indian make.
Bad comparison. The "average indian" lives in third world rural poverty. But there are still hundreds of millions of Indians who have education and economic opportunities resembling ours.
With India (and a few other countries) you kind of have to consider the modest-sized middle-class separately from the vast poverty class.