[distant_hat]

Indian medical system is something that one can't even imagine living in the Western world. The vast majority of 'doctors' are actually quacks. I learned that my maid used to go for weekly 'steroid shots' to some quack in her neighborhood. Her reasoning was that everybody did so. I offered to pay her to visit a regular doctor but she refused. She was also significantly malnourished and would drink sugar solution occasionally so she didn't faint. I again told her she could have a breakfast at my place and she did when desperate but refused when not citing that her family would be upset if they learned of it. It is anecdotal, but her lifestyle was entirely unremarkable. The poor in India are like this. India has the largest number of indentured servants in the world. The poor in India live short, brutal, miserable lives. Let them have their painkillers.

[Vinnl]

If you were willing to pay for her doctor and breakfast, but she wouldn't accept it, wouldn't if have been an option to just raise her wages?

[gambiting]

I can only imagine that she's not eating a breakfast not because of lack of funds but because her quack doctor told her that drinking sugar water and injecting yourself with steroids is healthier than eating. There are "doctors" like this in the west too.

[distant_hat]

Wages were not an issue, her knowledge was. She'd regularly buy expensive, overpriced trinkets. Also, she had two older brothers who got priority, so paying her more wouldn't necessarily go to her. She was still living with her parents.

[gingabriska]

I also learned about this.

There is a guy I met in gym who was asking me why I take protein shakes when they are so expensive.

He told me he takes some protein injected into bloodstream which is more effective and produces better results than fake optimum nutrition protein I get from Amazon.

So I asked him to show that protein, guess what, it was anabolic steroids. Sure did it produce amazing results and he thinks side effects are because Rahu in his Kundali.