> 100 years ago the US wasn't that different than India today in terms of exploitation of poor laborers.
100 years ago there was a period of prosperity in the US following WWI.
100 years ago there was much stronger unionization for Americans both in factories and on farms.
The high tech infrastructure 100 years ago was electrification, US cities being wired up and almost all rural (where most Americans lived and worked) areas not. You might argue for the phone but rural phones took longer than electricity to deploy. The high tech infra today is Internet and rural Indians are much more connected than century-ago Americans.
Conditions are very different in important ways. I'm intentionally leaving out race/caste comparisons, which are valid but will also lead to massive downvotes.
100 years ago there was a period of prosperity in the US following WWI.
100 years ago there was much stronger unionization for Americans both in factories and on farms.
The high tech infrastructure 100 years ago was electrification, US cities being wired up and almost all rural (where most Americans lived and worked) areas not. You might argue for the phone but rural phones took longer than electricity to deploy. The high tech infra today is Internet and rural Indians are much more connected than century-ago Americans.
Conditions are very different in important ways. I'm intentionally leaving out race/caste comparisons, which are valid but will also lead to massive downvotes.