Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed
by darkerside on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:05AM
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And here in the US, we are all encouraged to form lofty goals that are hard to reach (and often don't). And if we do, it's time to form yet another lofty goal. No wonder our levels of anxiety are sky high despite having so much more material wealth.
But - their lives are incredibly hard. No protection from the state, no future, at mercy of anybody more rich than them (=anybody else), it doesn't matter how good you are, you will never be given a fair chance to achieve anything in society. Nobody cares if you live or die, how you suffer, how unfair your life is. There isn't even such a basic mentality that 'I deserve more in life than this', because countless generations before never achieved anything.
And specifically for India, the effin' idiotic caste system makes all others content with the situation, because 'this is how things are supposed to be', 'they accrued bad karma in their previous lives' and so on. It's extremely good that this system is slowly dying, but it will take far too long in my opinion, especially in rural areas.
Their life is reduced to day-to-day survival, which makes everything simpler. They don't have lofty goals for life, and surviving OK yet another day is a success. Is this a simplicity you want to have compared to western style of life? I don't think so.