How the middle-class should adjust to AI economy

MUMBAI: For more than three decades, India built one of the most successful middle-class expansion engines in modern economic history by industrialising cognition at scale. Millions of engineers maintained systems, processed tickets, tested code, and kept the software of global business running. If China was the world’s factory, India became its back office.

The arrangement worked spectacularly because the global economy rewarded execution. Follow process. Reduce variance. Deliver predictability at scale.