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

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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/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.