It’s a nice sentiment but call centers are going to be entirely AI run before they return to higher income nations. It’s just too much of a competitive disadvantage unless you want to create a locked environment that requires corporations to run them locally even if at a higher cost.

The more likely outcome is Rogers or Bell will run their customer service via AI entirely and some American company will be collecting rent on every token processed.

You’ve never spoken to an Indian person outside of the context of a scam? Under which rock are you living, brother?

Quite a few enlightenment thinkers were inspired by contact with indigineous peoples in the Americas where certain democratic frameworks existed.

Several different parts of the world had various democratic frameworks throughout history including in South and West Asia, Africa, and certain indigenous groups in the Americas.

The Eurocentric narrative persists though, but perhaps for not much longer.

This quote in OPs image is by the late anthropologist who cowrote the Dawn of Everything which explores global civilizational history further.

This is by design. Throughout civilizational history, one’s in-group was made up of the civilized and any outgroup were “barbarians”. During the colonial era, as power and wealth shifted westward, the first global narrative of this kind was proselytized where one side of the world was civilized and the other was not.

During this period a lot of the history of the Eastern world was distorted and warped to accurately fit that narrative. This was to promote the idea of a “civilizing mission”, one where the exploitation of this era could be overlooked since the “lesser” who were victimized by it were “benefitted” by proximity to those more civilized than them.

A global race based caste system is what came out of this era. Anyone with their eyes open can see it everywhere around them, regardless of which hemisphere you’re in. Now, as power in the world rebalances, perhaps closer to a more natural state, the seams of that construct are slowly coming undone and the hegemon that had once defined the global narrative will no longer be able to silence the voices it once deemed as “lesser”.

I for one am excited for a future where people get to tell their own story and explore their own history. No, I don’t think about the Roman empire very often but I do look at the Mauryan empire, Chanakya and his treatise on statecraft (the Arthashahtra), and the university of ancient Taxila with a deep fascination - and there’s nothing wrong with that.

I also enjoy reading verses from the Kamasutra which was remarkably forward thinking (though not perfect) for its time with regard to promoting financial independence for women, autonomy, mutual enthusiastic consent, respect towards sex workers and the importance of balance during courtship - all of which was cast aside as paganism when it was made known in this part of the world, in favor of the glossary on sex positions. It also discusses homosexuality and transsexuality inclusively, concluding:

​"In all things pertaining to love, who can say what is right and what is wrong? Let each person follow their own nature." — Book 2, Chapter 9

Words to live by.

There is a ton of debate on this and in some cases if you standardize for affluence / income level the differences disappear.

There’s a lot of questions about cutoffs used for certain conditions and whether they can be used universally.

BMI is the most obvious example of a measure that should have for different cutoffs for different populations.

The WHO cutoffs for anemia were established over 50 years ago based on predominantly European and North American populations.

Sachdev et al., 2021 identified a subset of “healthy” Indian children from the CNNS data who had no iron, B12, or folate deficiencies and no inflammation.

In this perfectly “healthy” group, the 5th percentile of hemoglobin—the statistical cutoff for anemia—was 1.0 to 2.1 g/dL lower than the WHO standards across all age groups.

The researchers argued that if the population is “healthy” at lower Hb levels, using the higher WHO cutoff misclassifies millions of healthy people as anemic, creating a “false epidemic.”

Research published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2023) examined at what point adding more iron stops increasing a person’s hemoglobin.

For Indian women, the “steady state” was reached at a hemoglobin level of roughly 10.8 g/dL.

The WHO cutoff for non-pregnant women is 12.0 g/dL. This suggests that even when an Indian woman has optimal iron stores, her body may naturally maintain a hemoglobin level lower than the Western-derived standard

Most large-scale surveys in India use a finger-prick (capillary) test. Studies have shown that capillary blood often yields lower hemoglobin readings than venous blood (drawn from a vein) because of “interstitial fluid” dilution during the prick.

When the CNNS used venous blood, the anemia prevalence among adolescents was found to be significantly lower than what previous capillary-based surveys had suggested.

Just providing some context. There are many that advocate for universal cutoffs for a variety of reasons. But it should be understood that the interpretation of the data may not represent a meaningfully “deficient” state here. There are several examples of how using “normal ranges” that were based on a subset of the global population may lead us to dubious conclusions.

Whenever an adult says they’re destroying the toilet because off spicy food I think of a four year old’s dietary preferences / tolerance.

Not that anyone has to like spicy food but if you can’t tolerate it then that’s on you. The vast majority of cuisines globally incorporate it.

I also like to attach this article since it may enlighten some as to their culturally driven dietary preferences:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking