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@rutee07 oohoo! We have a winner her πΏπ₯³π
You get 2 days of free cyber bullying and 32 spams. -
*pushes a 10 l pot of fresh chicken stock to @Floydismus*
Stay hydrated. And far away from me :) -
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@Floydimus I think "chaotic mix" should be India's official tagline. To be fair it almost makes more sense to call it a continent than a country though.
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@bittersweet I agree. Each state is drastically different than other.
We are pretty much like European Union. -
@Floydimus I'm always baffled by the fact that India is a country where at one end illiterate people are living in huts without a sewage system -- and at the other end kids of conglomerate bosses drive their lambos to nightclubs, and engineers build a launch system capable of successfully reaching Mars.
I don't think such a gradient of wealth, standard of living and difference in education level exists in any other country, not to such an extreme degree. -
@IntrusionCM Yeah it's probably a weird thing to say from a Dutch perspective, living in the country with the #1 Gini Coefficient for Wealth (highest disparity between wealth and debt).
I still find India an odd case though. Although... you're right, I think the same "gradient of extremes" is also quite visible in the other BRICS countries. -
@bittersweet
The troublesome thing about numbers is that they are a coping mechanism.
No country in the world has solved the problem of poverty, nor in general the help for need.
Yes, places like New Delhi where an industry sector is right next to an slum with shanty's is shocking, as it's an undeniable visual fact.
But the poverty in the richest countries isn't better as it's sometimes deviously hidden in plain sight.
I guess that's an better explanation of my comment.
To give an example from Germany: we have welfare and even social organisations helping, yet child poverty exists.
Netherlands has, when I remember correctly, the same trouble.
Pockets of poverty exists.
And "diving" into them, eg. for welfare, is an unpleasant reminder how much we actually lack as humans. -
@IntrusionCM Definitely agree.
As soon as someone has a concrete flat apartment to live in and a place to poop, poverty becomes significantly harder to see, even though they might only be a tiny sliver higher up the comfort ladder.
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