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I dont think you have ever been to India. My driver has been with me for 10 years and his job has allowed him to fund his daughter to attend high school (in her village) - something that is unheard of in rural India. Also my driver sends a nice stipend to his family every month. India has 1 billion people - if they all became drivers, we would be 10 times richer than any nation in the world.

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I don't understand what you're trying to say. I wasn't claiming that being a driver is a bad job in India. My point was that most Indians cannot afford to have a personal driver (or even a car), whereas most Americans can afford to rent a ZipCar.

FWIW, I was born in the US but go to India regularly to visit family. My dad grew up in a mud hut in a rural village in Tamil Nadu, where much of my extended family still lives.

(Sidenote: How did the son of rural farmers get the kind of education that allowed him to immigrate to the US? It started with government programs that were put in place to bring affordable education to everyone.)

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