Last I heard, in India among the top 5% status is necessary to hold a job for those coming into the economy<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeed.com&#x2F;gayatrijayaraman&#x2F;broke-hungry-and-on-trend?utm_term=.xhYP4W8pW#.vd8v3lJql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeed.com&#x2F;gayatrijayaraman&#x2F;broke-hungry-and-o...</a><p>&gt;Their influences are not difficult to spot. Their startup economy’s success stories are of entrepreneurs who spent VC money to create their own wealth, who spent every paisa immediately to multiply each into a rupee. The stories they hear are of Mukesh Ambani, who inherited an empire and built a very expensive home, instead of Dhirubhai, who lived in a very small home and built a very big empire. They read about Katrina Kaif’s hair costing ₹50 lakh to dye correctly. They internalise the lesson that to earn any money, you’ve got to spend a lot of it.<p>The comments local to india are telling<p>&gt;You completely misunderstood the point. You need that burger to socialise, FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR JOB. Your job as an actor would require you to dress well, your job as a journalist will require you to go to places for interviews that you probably cannot afford yourself, and neither will your company pay for it. It isn&#x27;t that simple, choosing roti over burger.<p>So apparently, your example, job for job, starves in india, but may hopefully be caught by the safety net in the US and may luckily escape out as they get older.