 Uhh.. let me get this straight. The smartest brahmins -- who are smarter than the mediocre Nobel prize winners here in the US -- are all working for $0k a year doing mindless code work for outsourcers? They're not in silicon valley, they're not professors at Harvard or MIT, they're not running hedge funds and they're not the founders of startups like hotmail? Because the path to all of those other things definitely go through US (grad or undergrad) schools, if you are someone born in India. I guess they can't be that smart in the end... 0/00/00, 0:00 PM Anonymous said... rec0man here --- Dumber brahmins and merchants will have no children at all and die out Do you have a cite for that? I don't know a thing about the current reproductive structure in India, but this was a question about the past. I don't know what Brahmins did to earn a living in the past, or if success translated into increased number of children. 