These are averages. And wealth in the US is also more heavily concentrated.
So it likely isn't true for most people.
Also if you're poor and desperate for healthcare in the US, you can be seriously fugged. It's improved a bit, but people used to die ugly deaths in the US.
Subjective, but the level of suffering from not having healthcare when you need it was worse, than the sum of additional disposable income if you're doing OK is better.
“Pakistan is like Israel, an ideological state. Take out the Judaism from Israel and it will fall like a house of cards. Take Islam out of Pakistan and make it a secular state; it would collapse.”
-- Zia ul-Haq, December 1981
HOW LONG UNTIL A GREEN CARD? 🇺🇸
Refugee: ~1 year
Asylee: ~1 year after asylum
T-Visa: ~3 years
U-Visa: ~3 years
Diversity Visa winner: ~within 1 fiscal year
Most-country EB-2: 1-1.5 years
India-born EB-2/EB-3: ~100+ YEARS projected
A lottery winner gets a one year window. A highly skilled legal worker from India can face a generational wait.
At some point, stop calling this a “backlog.”
It is a system that has normalized an absurd nationality-based racism.
It's a monument to Indian cultures even still exist.
Let alone that we were liked at all.
Despite sub-sub-Saharan levels of poverty and centuries of foreign rulers and domestic co-conspirators that openly hated us.
These things do not typically harmonious cultures.
With Modi, Indians as people finally have a chance to build their own future, and not be made to feel shame for where they come from.
Of course that's not enough. Modi is one man, and even then he's not a king. India needs political and social institutions to continue that work.
If Modi made them hate me, then I welcome their hate.
I don't want to be loved by everyone.
There is no universe where I want to do "groyper alliance" or be liked by gen z communists or wumaos or assorted western expat garbages.
I see the people who speak honestly about India and like me, and I generally like them; that is what I want.
@pkhanagain4@MEAIndia No that's dumb.
Visiting a retarded website that welcomes retards and invites them to retardmaxx doesn't mean everyone IRL is a retard. But some of them are.
@williameijer No they don't mean "don't use your intelligence" they mean "you're failing to appreciate important nuance that makes this outcome non-generalizable in that manner".
Here's something to "whitepill" for Indians amidst all the blackpills they feed us on social media.
Among some big name capitals and subway networks, Delhi metro ranks the top performing subway over many years, beating even Tokyo metro.
Do post this on Insta/FB/Reddit, they will demote it for sure.
Also, here's some conspiracy from me as always: Almost all of India's metros consistently perform the best in the world in terms of punctuality and low breakdowns. And they carry a large number of people.
So surely, my hunch says, the DS will target this with breakdowns in the coming months before 2029, via insider sabotages or outsider hacks.
And it is kind of impossible for any govt to preempt 100% even if they try the best as we saw in Taiwan, Korea, and Japan before. So wait and watch.
@frontierindica 1.) It's usually more lucrative to build luxury real estate. The construction itself isn't that much more expensive; it's mostly land rights for development in choice areas. But returns are then huge.
2.) Real estate is used for speculation in India; not just living and working.
@ITContractorsUS Of course.
Unions are most effective when they exclude half the workforce in the industry; famously.
You can tell we're dealing with the real geniuses like OP.
Get this man a 7 figure tenured job this instant.
People are pointing out flaws as indicators of AI.
Whereas even regular digital photography can produce artifacts, flaws, unreal-looking images.
The point is, the tech is rapidly improving without any foreseeable ceiling.
At some point will likely even surpass conventional camerawork in producing realistic looking imagery.
And it isn't even fully AI-generated imagery that we have to be weary of. It's real images, with edits or additions that are not immediately apparent but still change perception of what is seen.
@RoseTint4 30% ghee 30% roti 30% ladoo diet, with a side of overcooked vegetables
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor; India is the least fit, most malnourished country on the planet.
Maybe this is OK if all you do is toil in the fields all day.
Indian cultures are for the most part pretty pragmatic, inherently secular, and prioritize the right things in life.
But we've also accumulated worldview baggage from centuries of foreign occupation; sometimes by those who hated our culture and sought to keep India divided.
It makes us view interactions with one another as 0-sum games; and we rightly then view each other with suspicion, always on guard until we know better. We end up hating and exploiting each other.
Social media can help with the reconditioning. Or it can harm that process. Ultimately, at a high level, Indians need to have veto power over what form the re-conditioning takes.
There are backwards cultures but these places still have extreme levels of poverty.
Whereas the construction workers that help build Dubai are also South Asian.
They aren't bad people, they just need good ideas instead of bad ones, and opportunities for economic mobility. Change will still be a generational process.
Lol this does not have any explanatory power in selecting for higher intelligence. If Africans tested higher, then we'd say Asians were too comfortable; their cognitive load was limited to sedentary life following a few simple traditions for reliable agriculture; whereas Savannah dwellers had to be adaptable to a range of conditions and opportunities.
@priyaakulkarni2@RepNancyMace@NancyMace Christians are great. It's fine if they have different ideas about faith, spirituality, philosophy, whatever. But he must follow the law with respect to proselytization efforts wherever he lives.