India is a lot more equal than the US.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_income_equality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_income_eq...</a><p>The US is extremely rich. We have close to 100% penetration of flush toilets, clean water, 24&#x2F;7 power, etc. 75% of our (relative) &quot;poor&quot; have a car, 70% live in a house with 2 rooms&#x2F;person, and 45% own that home. In most of the world the word for that is &quot;rich&quot;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.census.gov&#x2F;prod&#x2F;2008pubs&#x2F;h150-07.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.census.gov&#x2F;prod&#x2F;2008pubs&#x2F;h150-07.pdf</a><p>Compare to overall numbers in India, or if you can find them, to various communist nations.<p>Hopefully India will get to the US model, they are certainly taking many positive steps. I&#x27;m bullish. But they aren&#x27;t remotely there yet. Basically the entire country lives in what would be called deep extreme poverty (e.g. probably the bottom 1%) in the US.<p>I also wouldn&#x27;t want to go back to the poverty of the US 50&#x27;s and 60&#x27;s. I think everyone deserves a flush toilet (as in our modern &quot;some people are richer than others&quot; world), not just the top 80-90% (back when we were more &quot;equal&quot;).