Re:Note to fat USians (Score 1)

This is completely absurd. I was offered a tech lead developer position in Bangalore for 120,000 rupees per month. Your average school teacher, considered to be middle class, makes about 6000 rupees per month. Your average college professor considered to be upper middle class makes about 20,000 rupees per month. 120,000 rupees per month, not including the free apartment I was offered, is enough to buy a trick home, own 2 cars, private school for the kids, a full time maid, a cook, a gardner, a driver, a nanny, vacations in Goa, etc. etc. You are completely and totally right to think technical programming jobs are not middle class; thats because they are upper middle class at the very least. The average software engineer's salary is increasing at a rate of 25% per year. Do the math, it won't be long until those salary are not just middle class by Indian standards, but by US standards as well. Absolutely unlike commentary on /., there is not an infinite supply of SW engineers in India, if there was, how on Earth could the salaries be shooting through the roof.