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Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels

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Re: Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels

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profsummergig wrote: post #55
navigate8310 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe that's ingrained in the culture to live besides the filth and romanticize poverty.

There was a recent scandal involving someone spitting paan/chewing tobacco on the floor inside one of the state assemblies. A video I watched of a brand spanking new metro station in Mumbai. Marble floors and all. And a commenter pointed out a timestamp where you can see paan/chewing tobacco spit in a corner of the floor. Here's what baffles me. It is well established that Indians chew paan/chewing tobacco. It is wel…

That's because no politician wants to be the one "promoting tobacco products" with such an initiative.

Re: Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels

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Post by dartharva »

ViktorRay wrote: post #53

China and India had similar levels of poverty 50 years ago. How come China today is so different from India today? In terms of cleanliness and poverty elimination specifically. I know China liberalized in the 80’s and India in the 90’s. So you could say that’s a 10 year difference. But China 10 years ago was still very different from India even today. Does anyone have any ideas?

Industrialization, obviously. China made more money, and faster.

All such questions are easily answered once you take a look at the per-capita budget each country has for the required expenditures.

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Post by lupusreal »

clarionbell wrote: post #57
ViktorRay wrote: post #53

China and India had similar levels of poverty 50 years ago. How come China today is so different from India today? In terms of cleanliness and poverty elimination specifically. I know China liberalized in the 80’s and India in the 90’s. So you could say that’s a 10 year difference. But China 10 years ago was still very different from India even today. Does anyone have any ideas?

It is much harder to report on problems in China than in India for one.

There's no shortage of industrial and traffic accident videos coming out of China, very often showcasing horrendous working conditions and absolutely depraved levels of apathy from onlookers, which is to say that China isn't very good at suppressing videos that make them look bad. But in all of these videos, China looks 1000x more clean than India. Am I to believe that the Chinese government cares more about suppressing videos that show litter on the streets than a video of a woman slowly running over a child, putting her car in reverse and running over them again, all while people walk by and pretend they don't see it happen?

Re: Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels

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Post by lotsofpulp »

profsummergig wrote: post #55
navigate8310 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe that's ingrained in the culture to live besides the filth and romanticize poverty.

There was a recent scandal involving someone spitting paan/chewing tobacco on the floor inside one of the state assemblies. A video I watched of a brand spanking new metro station in Mumbai. Marble floors and all. And a commenter pointed out a timestamp where you can see paan/chewing tobacco spit in a corner of the floor. Here's what baffles me. It is well established that Indians chew paan/chewing tobacco. It is wel…

Someone willing to spit their filthy tobacco saliva everywhere and anywhere is not going to go out of their way to use a spitoon.

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Post by spinningarrow »

defrost wrote: post #46
ta20240528 wrote: post #44

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It makes it harder (impossible even) to take precise measurements deep into the decimal places if you have massive contours in the very thing (wealth) you are trying to measure with just one scalar number. Diversity is not meant in the modern political interpretation. As an less triggering exercise: try record in a single number the temperature - and change - of a large geographically diverse place like Australia - w…

If the mean rolling average of all tempreture readings across Australia moved by 0.5 across a twelve month period that would indeed be a significant change that would certainly mean something .

Can you elaborate on that? Why would it be significant and what could it mean?

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Post by energy123 »

dartharva wrote: post #62
ViktorRay wrote: post #53

China and India had similar levels of poverty 50 years ago. How come China today is so different from India today? In terms of cleanliness and poverty elimination specifically. I know China liberalized in the 80’s and India in the 90’s. So you could say that’s a 10 year difference. But China 10 years ago was still very different from India even today. Does anyone have any ideas?

Industrialization, obviously. China made more money, and faster. All such questions are easily answered once you take a look at the per-capita budget each country has for the required expenditures.

Why didn't India industrialize like China did?

Re: Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels

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Post by lupusreal »

dartharva wrote: post #60
navigate8310 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe that's ingrained in the culture to live besides the filth and romanticize poverty.

Disgustingly racist comment.

It's specifically a problem of culture, not race. Human "races" are equal, cultures are not.
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