TIME magazine's cover article "Is America flunking science?"

vampiro
Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:38:54 +0000

you know basically i think that actually speaking the american companies are right…but in terms of pupil motivation they are faltering…
see basically people see the incentive one has in India for doing engineering but then they overlook the fact that engg’s even in India are paid by MNC’s which like give atleast a minumum amount of reasonable money to every employee…in a way they aren’t paying any premium to the engg’s but the thing is that India is so weak in financial matters (atleast per capita income) that any salary looks huge when you compare it to the salaries in arts or culture…because for the simple reason that these fields are supported by the govt and not MNC’s if say tomorrow multi national research companies come to India for the arts and like fields the ‘incentive’ will disappear here too…
so basically this salary incentive which people or rather engg’s get here is just created by the natural economy of the country… i mean the pay in US for engg’s is also decent but then US is so strong financially that any profession will give you a good standard of living…