Comment by triceratops

> By GDP per capita, India is where the US was at in the 1950s.

In the 1950s the US's GDP per capita was the highest. Is that the case for India today?

> Would we excuse this behavior in the 1950s West

I mean the 1950s West was no bastion of ethical behavior. Wasn't that when the cigarette industry in the US started its decades-long campaign of misinformation, obfuscation, and false advertising to cover up the harmfulness of their products? And this was flagrantly unethical behavior by some very privileged people. This is without even getting into how women or minorities were treated.

> relative poverty is no excuse for unethical behavior.

One man's "unethical behavior" is another man's "playing by the letter of the rules, not the spirit". Spamming PRs for a free T-shirt is no way comparable to call center scams.