The salary is an annual salary not a monthly salary. 340 K INR is 5K USD ie: they are paid $5000 a year.

That would put them squarely in the upper middle bracket in India.

ommunist can correct me but I believe he was referring to having Dell tech support being located in a western country, instead of being based in asia. Yes it's more expensive to keep operations here, but we are more familiar with the business practices as well as the laws. Of course this is a price of "the race to the bottom".

> we are more familiar with business practices

Almost everywhere in the world had been doing business for thousands of years before the US existed. It's pretty careless to say that Asians are not 'familiar with business practices'.

They may not be all about your business practices. If yours get too weird and uptight they'll just return to doing business with the rest of the world and won't miss you too much.

It's fairly well known and accepted that regulations and rules in western countries are FAR stricter than those in Asian and Indian countries. If you care about privacy EU > US > everywhere else (any non western country has literally zero protections or laws about privacy that are enforced), if you care about workers being treated decently EU and US are bastions of fairly mediocre to bad treatment, everywhere else is sweatshops and de facto slavery.

That’s not really true, though. Look at Japan.

Sweatshops and de facto slavery isn’t everywhere, but you’re kinda right, countries which were colonies before – mostly in Africa, Asia and South America – tend to have less wealth and prosperity.

> ...countries which were colonies before – mostly in Africa, Asia and South America – tend to have less wealth and prosperity

The US, Canada, and Australia are rather prominent counterexamples.

They also are countries where there were enough immigrants that the native population was mostly displaced – it’s unfair to put them in the same category as colonies where only a tiny immigrant population ruled over the native population.

And even in some of these countries the wealth and prosperity for the native population has been an issue even in the past decades.

All three of which have systematically exterminated their native populations, to make room for settlers.

The ones that survived have gotten, and are still getting a pretty poor deal, too.

Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore are also good counterexamples.

Japan is maybe the lone exception in Asia, even when you include South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Then again I could be proven wrong.

Either chaostheory edited their post o you missed a "the" before "business practices", presumably referring to the business practices of western countries.

I cut and paste the quote directly.

I'm going to say that you probably didn't.

EDIT: let's say you did, even though I doubt it. Even then I feel that it's pretty obvious that I was referring to familiarity with western business practices (and laws) and not business practices in general.