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a)Yes, you pay different salaries for people living within the same country using the same currency. People living in Indianapolis pay lower rents than people living in NYC. That much is true. But. You cannotapply that principle in such a facile manner across nations due to a simple matter called the exchange rate. And that is what has deceived you. The dollar-rupee exchange rate makes it ridiculously cheap for American companies to hire Indian workers because the companies pay the Indians less dollars than they would if those workers were American.
b) The people living in countries like India do not get to apply the exchange rate because they're living in India. A cost of living that seems ridiculously low in America like $300.00 per month amounts to roughly 15,000 rupees. In a country like India where over 40% of the population earns less than $1.25 a day or roughly 60 rupees, earning 15,000 rupees a month is difficult and painful.
c) Notice that I applied that pesky exchange rate principle consistently here. You talked about cost of living in dollars and ignored thinking about the income in dollars. While the Indian cost of living in dollars is indeed low, the average Indian income in dollars is way, way lower. The ratio of cost of living to average income in the same currency is sky-high in Third World, oops, developing countries like India where most people earn shit pay.
Methinks I smell a whiff of jerk here. Both from Google and from you. And stuff that nineties-era relic of whining about political correctness. Once you use PC hysteria to justify ripping off a bunch of kids from a poverty-stricken foreign country, you've officially jumped the shark. #google
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Chun Li would win because Balrog was a charge character with no legit air defense.
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Nowadays and maybe it's just the parent in me, but if I were to witness such a fight, I don't know that I could film while keeping an eye out for a gun.
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As I was helping the poor man up, the woman started screaming at him in Chinese- like, how dare you trip over my cart, idiot! was what I got as they argued in Chinese. It seems like they can be quite rough with each other in the public thrum sometimes.
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Old Man#2(1:26): Hit that bitch.
Old Man#3(1:33): Beat that bitch ass.
Old Lady#2(1:37): Don't fight no more.
Old Man#2((1:59): Beat the fuck out of her till she is scared.
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- I will never understand Chinese/Mandarin
- Not all black people can lay a beatdown
- I still never, ever want to ride public transit in SF
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That black woman was so typical with the finger in the face, trying to push the other person so they will react first all the while talking all kinds of trash. Of course, she lands up throwing the first punch. What a surprise.
Well - she messed with the wrong woman. That Chinese lady was scrappy.
You know, I read an article a few years back in the New York Times about Chinese immigrant high school students in Queens who routinely are beat up on the subway by black and Latino punks. It made me so sad. (Of course if it happened the other way even once we would never hear the end of it).
I wish they had this woman to help them out.
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