aactually is an attitude mired in intelligent thought and common sense that tells me to ROFL at people who think a developing country compares its standard of living to be higher than that of a developed country. It's the let's get real bhai attitude. It's the , you must be on the proverbial crack pipe to think it. It's the , yeah good aspirations but check that ego with some facts.
Its the as long as you drive by people taking a crap in the streets on the way to work , or have to keep boiling your tap water or the very many facts of life you seem to forget about India, you even being filthy rich don't have the same standard of living across the board when compared to a developed country! ...
Speaking the truth does not make anyone more American or less, it just reminds you that your " sher" is a pipe dream for now .
I don't know why you keep making the same stubborn arguments - are you not able to comprehend what people are saying here? Can you not understand the argument here? Your posts make it more and more obvious that you are not intelligent as you think. Let alone intelligent - you don't even have basic reasoning skills. Really, you must be crazy to talk like this after 13 pages of discussion (with several posts having been deleted when I was asleep).
"Developing country compares its standards of living to be higher than developed country" my ass!!! Who said that, really?
What part of "living a middle class life in India" don't you understand? Since yesterday, you have been pasting images of poor people's child marriage, poor people not getting adequate healthcare in hospitals, and so on.
Stop being a stubborn mule and try to understand what is being said here. It sucks that we have people crapping on the streets, or unclean water. But the middle class Indian does not crap on the streets or drink unclean water. How is it relevant to the discussion here, if some poor people crap on the streets in India?
The only thing that people said here is that a middle class existence in India is either more comfortable than, or at par with, middle class existence in the West. The middle class Indian can afford cooks, maids, drivers here. Contrary to what you think, we don't drink dirty water. All of us have UV electric water purifiers at home - its a one-time purchase, around 4000 bucks.
Try to understand this - we don't expect the government to provide stuff here. Like Singh said some posts above:
The issue as I see it is this, we Indians have come to expect nothing from our government. That is why we hate paying taxes. Most people prefer relying on private schools, hospitals, security, infrastructural arrangements. Nobody wants to go the legal route.
In the West everyone feels they are entitled to a decent standard of living. Here money buys you a decent standard of living. You can get the best schools, cars, luxuries, hospitals, care, if you have the moolah.
In a way West is more egalitarian/socialist/welfare-centric than us.
JayATL, this is what you are just not able to comprehend. When you speak of India, you are stuck on looking at what the government provides, and you keep repeating like s stuck record, that life in India sucks because the government provides nothing good.
You are not able to differentiate between the life of a poor person in India and that of a middle class Indian.
Even after all this discussion, if you come up with a statement like: "ROFL at people who think a developing country compares its standard of living to be higher than that of a developed country", god help you - go and get a test done at some good mental health institution.
The real issue with your thinking here, I reiterate, is that you immediately spring up with "hey, how can anything in India be good or comparable to anything in the West? What bullshit!" and instinctively start arguing with cliches, without reading or comprehending what others are saying.
