What’s going to happen to all the Indians here in the US when they get laid off?
Hint: They ain’t going back to India.
Founded by Bhavish Aggarwal, one of India’s top entrepreneurs, Krutrim was positioned as India’s answer to ChatGPT. Aggarwal has pushed an intense work ethic within the company. He derided work-life balance as “a Western cultural import” and advocated for a 70-hour workweek.
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Narayana Murthy, the billionaire co-founder of the IT titan Infosys, has called for a 70-hour workweek. SN Subrahmanyan, chairperson of the multinational L&T, has pushed for 90.
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Another engineer at a firm in Bengaluru also reported grueling hours. “At times, I have [gone to sleep] at 6:30 a.m. after working through the night and reported back at 10:30 a.m.,” he said. He has suffered from low blood pressure and been diagnosed with a fatty liver disease. He comes from a small village and sends money home monthly to help his parents. “This model isn’t sustainable,” he said. “It is exploitative, and drives workers towards breakdown.”
I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with many Indian H-1B professionals over many years and they are smart, dedicated and always polite and helpful.
I would be supportive of Chinese employees also, if they weren’t all CCP spies.
Its not their fault we have so many corrupt leaders ruling in Babylon.
Make Babylon the Great Again.
India has over 1 billion people. It has a huge resource of highly intelligent, clever people. The jolt to the tech industry by evolving AI will cause temporary disruptions to the Indian economy and to many of those highly intelligent people. The same thing has happened to America and continues to happen. This is the way of a dynamic world. In the long run, despite a very bumpy road, India will do well.
Wow --> According to one 2024 report, only 10% of India’s 1.5 million engineering graduates that year were likely to secure a job. Tech workers are facing “a huge uncertainty about their jobs,” Mukhopadhyay said. “And they are very stressed.”
Ten percent! How disheartening to go to school, earn a difficult and demanding degree, and then find there are 10X more people in your field than industry needs.
Pretty sad he died that way. As long as you are alive, there is always hope. I feel for his family.
The world needs ditch diggers too.
Are they sure he didn’t just walk in front of a train or be electrocuted by a low hanging power line? This happens so much in India it is astonishing. Go on X and search for “Indian dies” and your mouth will be slung open for hours. I don’t think there is an I.Q. over 70 or a licensed electrician in the entire damn country.
So much fear over AI, and yes there may be temporary shifts in employment that do cause upheaval for a number of years.
However, throughout human history, advancements in productivity and efficiency always lead to long term improvement in the general standard of living for the majority of the population.
I think what it comes down to is, if you are afraid of AI in the short term, you are against it. If you are financially independent, you are much more supportive.
80+ hr weeks were common in the US from the late 80s to 2000.
then the dems handed the IT sector to india via the H-1b visa program.
which also has a direct impact on national security.
Here’s the big picture underpinning all of this evil:
worshipping a pantheon of fake gods leads to death and destruction.
There is only One Way to Life.
People of low skills and low coping mechanisms are affected by this.
The politicians are so terrified of the tech bros we have brought 3 million+ Indians over here and fired 3 million+ American white tech guys. And nobody talks about it. Not one media report in sight. It is breathtaking.
Feel free to relax at home … in India.
Indians are cursed. They go into IT but many don’t understand it very well outside of the classroom. They know the theory but not the practice. That’s why they burn out.
So... AI is cheaper than Indian workers? That’s hard to believe!!