Years ago is different to now. Many places in Russia or China, Dubai etc is very livable. Even lots of people are going about their lives normally in Dubai - these days.
China is definitely not so shit like portrayed by western media. At the same time London is also not run by Islamic Extremists as portrayed by perhaps the top media station in USA.
> Sad part is that probably the poor (everywhere) are the on
totally true.
This doesn't help. Your contact number is shared by 50 parents' phone..are you sure of their security measures.
Even if I keep everything safe many govts are using Microsoft cloudfor day2day operations. Recently my employer lost tons of data. Every CV you send to a company or recruitment is kept often unencrypted. Every other country is fingerprinting/face ID upon arrival. Are you sure about their security?
Things that I have dumped into my email are far less consequential compared to those.
The game is lost. Very few people can have privacy.
> not saying India's perfect. Far from it
The is the reason it will never change.
Talking in double negative.
Citizens are so shameful to admit issues.
In most of the West, that I know of, people admit to issues. Brazenly say, yes , German train system is under performing, no investment in the last 10 years from both parties. Then there is chance for change. It is happening.
Ego issues need to cleared away.
Mic drop
Both may benefit. Some will lose. If benefits overweigh losses then ok.
Well Rapido bike means Auto-wallas are angry. That is reality.
The highest tariffs are holding India back. A decent original nike shoe is about €50 here but why it is Rs5000 there (with lower Purchasing power). Local businesses have too long bribed Indian politicians. Recently I replaced the gate of my house here in EU. It was 20 years old. No rust despite old. I remember the steel supplied by our companies is crap - we repaired our gate every few years. Or it was not properly painted.
Costs of computer etc are too high for any startup etc. and with our talent more cheaper imports from china would be great to build a local giant.
On the other hand our people do
- exploit Digital Ocean T-shirt give away to create stupid pull requests and burden maintainers in GitHub open source project
- curl dev stopped bug bounty due to many sending AI reports
- clone AOSP and IIT Chennai said it have created a independent OS.
Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmai founder) recently said we have become users not creators.
Even Ambani with all his money can't do a good tech company.