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(Sorry for low effort comment).

> But with wide adoption of digital payments they now just accept any payment with the goal that they don't want bad reviews and/or lose customers.

My experience is opposite, Now with UPI which 99% of people have access to there is no incentive for people to accept Credit Cards.

The competition is high with online ordering (which accepts cards), so the incentive is to not lose customers. in fact people have become so desperate for more sales that they would let you take something and pay later but not lose you as a customer.

I was talking about small businesses like restaurants which generally used to accept credit card even before UPI. Now very few accept credit cards.

Even before UPI credit cards were common accepted online. So I am not sure about that as well.

Small businesses generally dont because the setup for a merchant POS is quite a bit of hassle. In fact maintaining that device also costs money. A UPI merchant on the other hand is quite easy and free from what I know. This setup with visa mastercard might change in the future (with square like devices). However there is also a security problem so fraud might increase with that. Very interesting times for visa and mastercard who have basically not innovated since their existence and yet somehow have grown so big.

There are some states where caste doesn't matter like Telangana (not 100% casteless society but better than most states in the country). Also urban India is relatively casteblind.

Probably worst comment I have seen on HN tbh.

#MeToo

My God, Your first link is horrifying.

Someone blaming every young person's illness on a vaccine, without any context for comparsion vs the population that didn't get the vaccine? That is horrifying. What are they trying to cover up?

Yes, also this region was ravaged my violent communists (Maoists) not so long ago. So they have very few opportunities.

She can quit anytime she wants, let's not compare this to indentured servitude, Sanjay.

This is a consequence of communism and big government of India.

I don’t think she can quit anytime soon unless she wants to be homeless. If she has option she wouldn't be doing such kind of job.

Generally, Indians live with their parents until their marriage. So I am guessing she won't be homeless.

Subtle argumentation is not one of your strengths, Leo.

I see few people coming from Jharkhand and working as waitresses in my state.

Also, your first link mentions Bihar not Jharkhand.

> I see few people coming from Jharkhand and working as waitresses in my state

Ststistically, a young Santali woman from rural Jharkhand would most likely end up working in West Bengal, Maharashtra, or Karnataka [0] according to Jharkhand's Migration Survey.

> Also, your first link mentions Bihar not Jharkhand

Because HDI and developmental indicators remain roughly comparable in both states. Salaries in Bihar are comparable to salaries for similar roles in Jharkhand, Eastern UP, or Northern portions of West Bengal.

[0] - https://iimad.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/salx20170525s-i...

Jharkhand was formerly part of Bihar >25 years ago, and they were administered jointly with Orissa before independence. Then, my family worked in the police service and were transferred between Patna and Hazaribagh without any problem.

> Nevermind that society dictates everyone must work to survive by default.

What is the alternative ?

A little over 100 years ago women were only 20% of the labor force. [1] Which is to say, most women did not participate in wage employment.

Now they're ~47%. Which is great! But it also hints that society doesn't need most of the labor for the system to still function.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/about/history

Rather like subsistence farming, everyone got out of housework as soon as possible and into a far less onerous office.

People didn't get out of housework. They're doing housework and office work.

Housework isn’t as onerous now as it was 100 years ago, though.

if I could retire, raise my kids and homeschool them, and do housework instead I would in a second. Nothing is more interesting, more fulfilling, and more challenging then raising the next generation.

"Work" does not exclusively mean "work full time for a wage".

yeah but carrying and raising kids?

You appear to be asking a trick question, disingenuously.

There's a vast continuum between grossly-unequal homeless everywhere like many corrupt, third-world countries with masked, paramilitary disappearance squads and a large, happy middle-class paid well that can afford to buy things, take vacations, and enjoy life where corruption is lesser.

The disappearing middle class in America is becoming the upper class.