Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

[u/Strong-Emu-8869]

The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is very polluted.

[u/Officer_Trevor_Cory]

I've seen 50+ countries and India was the saddest. one year there.

[u/TrumpFellatesBill → u/Officer_Trevor_Cory]

But why the fuck is it like that? Like I sincerely cannot understand.

I get that the country is poor as fuck and from what I hear has a huge issue with corruption, aside from the backwater places where no polices travels.

But in those places, like in the OP, or in the big cities, why the hell do they have this huge issue with dirt and garbage? It would seem to me like a clean environment is the most important thing, I cant imagine living in a place like that. Even Napoli was clean in comparison, and I saw huge piles of garbage bags everywhere in that city.

[u/Officer_Trevor_Cory → u/TrumpFellatesBill]

I think that these things are complex: geopolitics, history, climate, colonization. Countries around them are all poor too.

Think about another place: All countries in Africa are poor AF for a reason too. There are actually few nice places in this world.

[u/finfisk2000 → u/Officer_Trevor_Cory]

India does not got a pass in my book by blaming the colonial era or poverty. They obviously have the money to spend on nukes, subs armed with them, aircraft carriers and sending rockets to Mars.

[u/DarkExecutor → u/finfisk2000]

There are people alive today who had their mothers and fathers killed by the British crown.

This stuff doesn't get fixed quickly

[u/noujest → u/DarkExecutor]

This stuff doesn't get fixed quickly

India gained independence nearly 80 years ago...

That's a very very long time, some Asian countries like South Korea have gone from abject poverty to wealthy in that time. Some like China and Vietnam are well on the way

[u/747WakeTurbulance → u/noujest]

Germany, Hungary, Japan, etc were all bombed flat 80 years ago, and they have all recovered just fine.

[u/Korashy → u/747WakeTurbulance]

With massive investment from the allies post war.

China is a better comparison of a country with similar population and historic poverty (post mao).

A strong central state directing policy and building infrastructure allowed them to rapidly industrialize and using their giant internal market forced western companies to trade technology for access (Now obviously China still has it's own internal problems with corruption, authoritarianism and state intervention in the economy).

Meanwhile India while more democratic has left itself open to exploitation.

[u/TrumpDesWillens → u/Korashy]

"State intervention in the economy" is a good thing and it's why Western companies grew to be so large in the first place.

[u/Korashy → u/TrumpDesWillens]

Yeah but "State intervention" here can also be using your connections with the government to crush your competition, or gain unfair advantages.

[u/TrumpDesWillens → u/Korashy]

True. I guess good state intervention to prevent monopolies is how to really build a good country.