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Billion Indians have no spending money (www.bbc.com)
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India is home to 1.4 billion people but around a billion lack money to spend on any discretionary goods or services, a new report estimates.

The country's consuming class, effectively the potential market for start-ups or business owners, is only about as big as Mexico, 130-140 million people, according to the report from Blume Ventures, a venture capital firm.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

consuming class

I'm happy to disappoint the parasite class.

[–] lurch 2 points 1 day ago

What are the other classes? Monk, warrior, paladin, wizard and rogue?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I mean, per capita that's pretty normal. Welcome to the other billions. Shit's just peachy for the humans on this rock /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

While pointing to some obvious issues, this metric is very much from the financial aspect pov.