> And in India you need to work 5x as hard if not less to make same wages as your American counterpart, even then if you manage to make the same wage as someone I America, you'll find your money can only buy 1/3rd of the benefits an American can buy.

There are other "luxuries" that middle-class Indians can afford if they're earning at least the lower-end of American-level salaries. Early retirement, reasonably affordable healthcare and education, properties far away from cities and affordable labor to work them, more affordable house-help (cooks, house-maids, nannies).

Speaking personally as someone who has lived in a first-world country and who's now living in India, I find that free time is more valuable to me than drones or Lamborghinis or iphones. Not saying that things are ideal in India - far from it, in fact. But living in India does have its positive side as well.