Re:Fidel Castro has died
by hkt on Saturday November 26, 2016 @05:10AM
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The fixation people have with expanding middle classes is odd. I'd say progress where the poorest are included in social gains is more valuable than any other kind. Otherwise we end up with societies like the US where some parts of the population live in ghettoes worthy of the worst of the third world.
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With all due respect, that's a crazy exaggeration. There is nowhere in America where the entire neighborhood has no electricity, no running water, no sewage, and no paved roads. Such places are common in Africa and India.
Such places are common in Texas.[1]
[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/the-amer...
Re:Fidel Castro has died
by shrikrishna on Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:12AM
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Whenever someone quotes poverty and hardships in India, I feel the urge to defend - the scale at which India has to operate is completely different from any other country. Being a democracy, and hence having to deal with high viscosity in governance
Re:Fidel Castro has died
by realusername on Saturday November 26, 2016 @06:08AM
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There are indeed places in the US without running water right now (see Flint as an example). I also don't think comparing with in development countries is relevant.
Re:Fidel Castro has died
by selectodude on Saturday November 26, 2016 @09:20AM
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There are places all over the world that have suffered disasters taking out normal services. That doesn't mean that the services never existed or the country as a whole isn't industrialized yet.
Flint isn’t a disaster, it’s direct mismanagement and corruption combined.