You mean the expensive labor of UK?
The best solution for solving corruption is to kill of the local population of Adivasi like they did in USA or loot from the colonies and wreck their nations like Britian did. Bunch or mass murders have suddenly found a Renaissance of liberty where as we never did slave trade bought or sold people and castrated boys for sex and our only fault is that we are poor nation.
Now that you finished with the emotional responses. I asked for data and facts. Not for platitudes and rhetorical examples. I asked for a conversation on pure economical data and you give me one off examples. You give what would be an 'F' on your report card had your professor asked the same question. You got all guarded and went off the path of what was being asked.There is a reason that I chose to make my career in India, rather than trying to emigrate to the West. I have no reason to regret my decision, so far. There is a reason that lots of people are making the same choice as I did, and this percentage keeps increasing.
I live a better life than my contemporary Brits of similar standing in society.
I earn more than Brits at my age do - there is something called "purchasing power parity", you know - converting the earning of a Brit in pounds into rupees and saying that he earns more, makes no sense at all. I do earn a better sum than most Brits.
The life expectancy of a middle class Indian is the same as that of a middle class Brit. The average expectancy of an Indian is in the high 60s, because of the huge number of poor masses in India. Compare the stats for the "middle classes" alone, and there is no difference. My grandparents are still alive, and they are more than 80-85 years old. Most of my peers have very old parents and grandparents.
Healthcare, you say? Heh - the amount of moaning that Western citizens raise about healthcare is legendary.
I had to get a wisdom tooth extracted recently - it came out too late, for some reason. I walked over to my regular dentist, whom I have been visiting for nearly a decade now. He extracted it for 300 rupees, and the antibiotics/painkillers cost less than 100. I was just browsing the internet for information on wisdom teeth, necessity for extraction, etc. I noticed an abnormally high number of questions/discussions from Westerners (mainly US and UK of course) about how to avoid it, how to pull it at home , how to tie a string to a doorknob (and the tooth) and slam the door to get it removed (yikes).
All of them had the same story - my insurance doesn't cover it, I cannot afford it, my dentist is insisting that I get a $1400 cleaning done first - things like that...
No, I am better off in terms of healthcare. Do you know that super-specialty, high-quality healthcare is actually cheap here? Don't even compare healthcare in the US/UK vs. what we have here in India, for a reasonably well-off middle class guy. Health insurance? It hardly costs anything to get it here - it is a very small part of my salary.
Loss of jobs - are you kidding me? As though the state in the UK/US provides a complete 100% dole in case of job loss! Had that been the case, there wouldn't have been so much whining against outsourcing.
"Religious freedom" - this is getting laughable now.
JayATL - there was nothing "emotional" about the response. Neither was it "emotional poppycock response".
average household earnings is a rubbish question but you stating that middle classer in India lives better off ( standard)than a middle classer in britian is not ? telling me about a dentist visit as example is your answer to the standard of healthcare offered? ..Life expectancy of middle classer is same india and britain you claimed based on what? not data, but because your grandparents are 80-85 yrs old! - thats you answer to empirical DATA , facts asked.
What has that got to do with how happy i am? You must be a very shallow man, because i am very happy where i am. I dont need green lawn on my porch, i am as happy as any American so what is the point? O you mean i should be white and act like Ameican and [edited]?
First of all, what do you mean by "standard of healthcare"? Your question is subjective, and really does not make sense.
My uncle was a doctor in new york....used to live in a mssaive house with a garden and drove a jaguar. He left usa for India few years ago to become director at max hospital. He earns 5 crores per year now.
Thanks.
My two cents : I would give up. We've already been entertained enough for one day by Jay. I'd allow him some rest to come back and continue the clownery tomorrow.
do you know the Britain healthcare system? Do you know their citizens don't pay for healthcare that the govt provides it for all? do you know how these one off ridiculous examples look when you put them up as the sign for good quality and care of the heath care system in Britain vs India? Okay- let me ask you a simple question: why did sonia gandhi come to the US for her medical procedure?
My maid feel sick with heart problem, little did i know he had Insurance! lol..My favourite Example
iPill - Rs 100
Plan B - $40
