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In India, your servant cleans your house, your servant drives you around, your servant cooks food for you, your servant ties your shoes... community πŸ₯°

I can't think of one other person who doesn't appreciate these luxuries! Wait, what do you mean "proles are people"?? porky-scared

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 111 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"america sucks because the slaves cost too much"

[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

Not if you're a business of sufficient size employing prison labor

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 86 points 2 years ago (1 children)

honk How easy is it to raise your children in India if you're working as a maid?

[–] jonne 65 points 2 years ago

I'm sure the maid can afford her own driver and maid on the maid salary she gets. Community!

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 85 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dont make the rules.

your class does and you are culpable as part of that class

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And there's always the choice of not having personal servants or borderline neo feudal slaves. There is no requirement for hiring a maid once you reach a certain income level. It's not like the government is going to force you to hire someone once your first big paycheck arrives. "Keeping up with the Joneses" is a conscious choice and effort. Especially when "the Joneses", in this case, are a bunch of freaks that hsve personal servants and pay them like crap in a country with horrific poverty.

Being a class traitor is an even better option.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 76 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't make the rules

Very interesting, now face the wall please

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 78 points 2 years ago (1 children)

claims raising a family is so much easier in India

admits it only applies to like 5% of the population

does not even consider the existence of the other 95%

the-deserter

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago

Claims to not know anyone who can't afford slaves. Shocked to find out he doesn't consider slaves people.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

40k a year household income would put you in top 1% in India.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

People, like the OP in the twitter post, really don't understand how exchange rates and super exploitation work, and just think you can compare 40K USD income in the US, to 40K USD in the global south. This goes both ways too, many people from the global south want to immigrate to the west thinking that earning dollars or euros is magical even if it's some minimum wage job, without considering how much more expensive everything is there.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

The OP is in a superposition of acknowledging that $40k in India is equivalent to hundreds of thousands in the US, and pretending that it's a regular, maybe middle class income

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

This goes both ways too, many people from the global south want to immigrate to the west thinking that earning dollars or euros is magical even if it's some minimum wage job, without considering how much more expensive everything is there.

True, though many of them also know that the cost of living is higher but they want to live extra frugally and send back their savings to their families at home where an extra $1k a year would actually be transformative.

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

A long while ago someone tried to convince me to take a job in Singapore on the same basis - get cheap help from whoever the underclass is there and do some white collar coasting. I also recall a similar pitch from the Saudi oil people when I was in university. It's pretty gross. I don't understand how people respond positively to that without vomiting.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

whoever the underclass is there (Thai people? Idk) a

I think Filipinas make up most of the most exploited domestic workers in Singapore and elsewhere om SE Asia. Hong Kong has a particularly sordid history of mistreating foreign domestic workers - one of the few ways I will admit that they are indeed "closer to the English".

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Filipinas

Boy I sure am glad they were saved from the tyranny of communism

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The white sexpats in the Philippines sure think so...

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I fucking hate anticommunists so much. This is the "freedom" they hold sacred. The thing they're willing to kill and enslave billions for. And they act like you're the monster if you don't agree.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

The CPP and NPA are still in the struggle. Ang Bayan is their newsletter. Longest running communist insurgency in world history.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

they're not all bad. they've given you complete justification to murder them at any point with any means necessary.

i really appreciate that quality in a person

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

And when they start being racist toward Filipinos all of a sudden "HongKong is not China" doesn't apply anymore and it's all of our faults. CCP is too soft on HK.

[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't understand how people respond positively to that without vomiting

Just average pmc/corporate ladder type things

[–] the_kid@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

life is so easy when there's a permanent underclass of people available to do all your chores for very little pay!

[–] TupamarosShakur@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

Community is when you have a maid and a driver

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Heard rich(and almost all white) South Africans say the exact same shit when asked about why they didn't immigrate to the west. These people are not ok.

I remember discussing it on hexbear here

[–] Othello@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i remember our convo about this same issue. it definitively fucks up the children. they think they can talk down to all black people.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, and that includes asking random black people at the store or supermarket for help as if they work there...

Seen it happen a few times.

[–] Othello@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

is it getting better or has progress stalled would you say? i cant imagine it will get better till the racial inequality is solved.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

It's getting better, but slowly.

[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago

So many reasons that raising kids in the US in hellish and β€œyou have to interact with them” tops your list? The fuck

[–] borlax@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Raising a child seems hellish in general.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, but some of us have a lot of sex, so it happens. shrug-outta-hecks

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk seems like a skill issue to me...

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We're talking about parenting and making it an enjoyable experience?

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[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

vasectomy gang and tubal litigation gang would like a word with you

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

tubal litigation gang

i will sue the FUCK out of your reproductive system

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I'm not good at planning ahead.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Virgin finish insider vs chad pull outer

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

gigachad-hd This is not me

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Having 10,000 kids so that I can build an army of leftists

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Sure "raising" children is a lot easier when you hire someone else to do it for youcapitalist-laugh

[–] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

getting a domestic service job so I can merk some diplomats' family

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

just merk the diplomat

[–] flan@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i dont think life in india is that much cheaper than in the US where $40k has you living like a US multimillionaire... ive heard houses there are still like a $100k+. I guess what I'm saying is these servants are probably more like slaves.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

land is more expensive in India because of a much higher population

I'm also pretty sure they only allow a small amount of foreigners to buy land or something like that

Because of that, guys like this are usually super rich, because how the fuck do you make a $40k income in India without owning tons of land?

[–] flan@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Tech pays significantly more than $40k in india (at least in cities like Bengaluru) if levels.fyi is anything to go by. 25th percentile of sr software developers is $38k, 90th % is $108k. So seems like a typical mid-career white collar worker could be making in the $40k+ range? These people are probably a very small % of the overall population though.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sounds like there's a massive opportunity for western firms to hire Indian work-from-home programmers then, if their national education was improved

their salaries are 20x inflated relative to the average citizen (as opposed to the west where it's more like 1.5x inflated).

India will probably end up being the China of software (rather than manufacturing)

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sounds like there's a massive opportunity for western firms to hire Indian work-from-home programmers then, if their national education was improved

They already do

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[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

If you ignore the servitude, there's actually a point underneath this ghoul's rant, which is that non-Europeans are okay with multi-generational households

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