People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity

Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by ghaff on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:48PM (#35220879)

Let's cut off their electricity and phone too and forcibly relocate them. It's not like other countries haven't done that in the past. /s

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by SamReidHughes on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:03PM (#35221058)

We can just make them pay for it instead of mooching off everybody else.

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by oatmeal1 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:10PM (#35223680)

Exactly. People in this thread are perfectly happy to throw unknown heaps of other people's money at the problem until it is solved. And it's not like the government has a track record of efficiently spending money in the first place.

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by tharkun__ on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:34PM (#35223902)

Yeah let these city dwellers grow their own food. We got enough for ourselves, no need to sell it to them types. /s

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by scatters on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:37PM (#35224435)

When? I can't think of any examples of forced rural-urban migration other than the Highland Clearances in the UK, which isn't really comparable.

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by paradox460 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:00PM (#35225215)

Pol pot did it in Cambodia

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by scatters on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:49AM (#35336056)

That was urban-rural migration.

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by itake on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:36PM (#35240957)

Rural people need reliable access to power for farming.

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