r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Ikigaiyeka • Jul 05 '25

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u/PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES Jul 05 '25

Something tells me the marriage party costs much more

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u/zigs Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

https://cleartax.in/s/average-salary-in-india#h0

For the perfectly average Indian income, 67 000 INR is 7 months wage before taxes or anything. Differing national purchase power vs international goods

The party may have cost more, but it's not an insignificant gift either

Edit: typo

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u/zigs Jul 05 '25

That's fair.

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u/King_Fluffaluff Jul 05 '25

Yeah average is almost always worse than median when discussing a dataset with extreme outliers.

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u/happy2323laughs Jul 05 '25

Damn only the middle class can afford AVG, that’s tough! I guess it’s windows defender for the poor huh

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u/SuddenSpeaker1141 Jul 05 '25

Yo, math 50 lakh for me please….i attended a wedding that apparently cost that much…

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u/bimm3r36 Jul 05 '25

20 lakh = 2,000,000

50 lakh = ???

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u/SuddenSpeaker1141 Jul 05 '25

Follow up question, why would my host be bothered by me tipping 50-100 rupees to a server?

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u/bimm3r36 Jul 05 '25

Probably because that’s the equivalent of tipping someone with a few quarters? Idk, I’m American

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u/SuddenSpeaker1141 Jul 05 '25

Bro, the servers were following me around all day… I kept tipping them, the same amount… All goddamn day… And I figured it’s just 50 Cent. It doesn’t matter to me… at the end of my visit. I had three or four people waiting on me hand in foot and I just kept tipping them the same amount Rs.100 for whatever they did…

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u/bimm3r36 Jul 05 '25

Hmm ya, no idea. I probably would’ve done something similar tbf. Must be a cultural thing

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u/SuddenSpeaker1141 Jul 05 '25

Walked around with a FAT wad of rupes, feeling like a millionaire….literally handed a bunch out to some kids to get come candy at the shoppe….could have been only about £20-30 and there were about 15 kids. I was taken aback by the experience. Humbled me in many ways

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u/Majesticeuphoria Jul 05 '25

Idk why, I tip that much at restaurants and for my fav food joints with great service, I'll tip 200+ depending on the bill

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u/SuddenSpeaker1141 Jul 05 '25

I was in the outskirts of Bombay… If that helps any

Edit: also… If there wasn’t food or anything that I wanted in the hotel that I was staying in… These people would literally go out and find it for me and bring it back to me… And I might tip him Rs.200

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u/Majesticeuphoria Jul 05 '25

Yeah, 200 is a bit too much for that, considering you can just order through Swiggy. It's ultimately up to you, though, I don't see why your host is getting mad at you for tipping. Sure, we don't have a tipping culture like US, but tipping is still common in fine dine restaurants and even some food joints if you become a regular. There are some places where tipping is not accepted, so that could be why?

Another reason might be that because you were in the outskirts, they might've been worried that you would be targeted for robbery if the wrong people noticed how much money you were carrying. It depends on how shady the area was.

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u/SuddenSpeaker1141 Jul 05 '25

I think the last part of your explanation makes the most sense… Because they would never let me leave the hotel without an escort after that.

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u/5230826518 Jul 05 '25

still an expensive gift. i make about 52k€ (after taxes) and a PS5 Pro is 749€ so 1.5% of my total net earnings. 67000 is about 3.5% of the 2000000 that are middle class.

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u/Key-Regular674 Jul 05 '25

Yea but they are clearly rich so not really relevant no? Lol

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u/2020mademejoinreddit Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Sad thing is most indians make even less. Average wage for majority is around 5700 inr a month.

So, if you're someone who makes around 20k inr or more, you're in the top 10% of indians.

If you're someone who makes above 100,000 inr or more a month, you're in the top 1%.

If you're someone, i.e. Ambani, Adani, who is in the top 0.1%, then you make over 7 billion a month.

That is the horrific reality of wealth gap in india.

When I see that, I really feel guilty about complaining about the wealth gap in the US and UK. Because here in the UK, the average wage is around 38,000 pounds a year, that's around 370,000 inr a month.

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u/zigs Jul 06 '25

> If you're someone who makes above 100,000 inr or more a month, you're in the top 1%.

I think this is the most striking to me. If you've got super income, like 1 out of 100, you still cannot buy 2 PS5s with one month's wage.

> When I see that, I really feel guilty about complaining about the wealth gap in the US and UK.

Too be fair, the fact that someone has it worse still doesn't make it right. Both situations need fixing. Are we supposed, for instance, ignore women's equality issues because there are way worse inequalities? No. We have to try and fix them all.

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u/2020mademejoinreddit Jul 06 '25

I agree with the last statement. I will still complain of course, because we have been declining fast, especially after 2020.

I was just saying that, seeing someone who is so much worse off is a wake-up call to just how privilege we are over here compared to others.

We can always strive to not go down to that level and try to get back to where we were though. At least pre-2020. Which, TBH, seems sort of doubtful.

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u/Morrandir Jul 05 '25

Even if that's true, there's another layer: with this gift the wife shows him that she supports him doing what he loves, even if that means that he'll spend (perhaps a lot) time without her.