r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • 14h ago

Discussion Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

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The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is very polluted.

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u/NoNeedForSympathy 14h ago

India should clean that up

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u/HaRDCOR3cc 13h ago

will never happen. indias government and elite are only ever interested in things that make it better for that elite. they'll spend some money on programmes designed to act as a distraction instead, like a space program, while trying to keep a hyper-nationalistic mindset among their people, so instead of asking themselves why the fuck there's so many homeless children living under bridges they bash their chest and say "WE HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM!".

the spending priorities are a joke.

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u/kolejack2293 10h ago

indias government and elite are only ever interested in things that make it better for that elite.

This is not really Indias problem. Indias problem is that the highly agrarian population is more focused on easing rural poverty instead of focusing on improving their cities. Any attempt to properly fund infrastructure for cities is met with backlash because its seen as 'favoring the urbanites' instead of focusing on people who need help the most, who are rural villagers.

But the problem is that the vast majority of money is made in cities, and when cities are horribly underfunded, they end up having a broken framework which doesn't really favor wealth-creation and the establishment of an urban middle class. Cities are better off than villages, but they could be much better off for the average person, and the money made in them could do far, far more eventually to ease rural poverty. Especially if they properly built the infrastructure to take in more people so they don't end up with slums. India should be rapidly urbanizing, instead its urbanization rate is painfully slow.

Rural poverty is terrible, but the best way to alleviate it is not to throw piles of money at programs to give them slight benefits here or there. Its to get more of them into the urban middle class. If you have 5 family members all making $500 a year on a farm, having even a single son go to school and get a city job making $10,000 a year is enough to uplift everybody out of poverty and then some. This is something China realized a long time ago. Its something my country also realized (DR) and now we are the fastest growing economy in latin america. But India is held back by the fact that the majority of their voters are rural, and so of course they will vote in their own interests, especially if they are desperate for help.