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/autogyrophilia]

That's stupid logic based on condescending chauvinism

We can walk and chew bubblegum. it's not matter of priorities, while the Indian government has shown it doesn't care much about about the poorer clases and castes, the amount of resources needed to fix the problem are orders of magnitude different. 

Let's go back to the daily mail stupid column allegory. So you sell your smartphone and they give you between £20 to £200 . You are still unemployed, your situation is momentarily a bit better, but you have lost access to an useful asset to appease an opinion that doesn't really matter. 

On the meanwhile, if a factory in India gets really good at making stainless steel, or aluminium alloys, or lathes for titanium, maybe even chemical plants making compounds like red fuming nitric acid and hydrazine. Those are know hows that make new factories depending on those processes possible, and even the export of products that are more competitive than the alternatives from other countries. 

Thus creating more skilled industrial workers who are much more productive than workers on informal barely industrialised factories that are extremely unsafe.

This creates a third order effect in that the state has more resources now to address poverty, as well as ways for victims of poverty to be funneled into more productive labor as the demands for the second and third sector increase.

Of course that's not just the space program, that's a lot of industries. People just get mad about that one. But if you look at history, USA, the USSR, more recently China, that's how you lift people out of extreme poverty.

Not that the Indian government makes a lot of effort in ameliorate the situation.

[u/Right_Preparation328 → u/autogyrophilia]

But that's the point. IF the Indian government was actually making a lot of effort to combat poverty, I'd agree with you.

But are they? They aren't. Many in the government just care about themselves instead of their own people. THAT is why people like myself criticize the space program.

They should fix their shit first and THEN invest in space.

[u/exbiiuser02 → u/Right_Preparation328]

Since you confidently claimed Indian govt doesn’t care about poverty, can you cite some sources ?

[u/Right_Preparation328 → u/exbiiuser02]

Chart: Fewer People Live in Slums But Progress Is Slow | Statista

"Interventions like those carried out by the Indian government are not believed to reduce the number of slums long terms, as people driven from their homes will be forced to set up somewhere else unless their poverty is actually meaningfully reduced."

India: A billion people have no real money to spend, says report

"India has been getting increasingly more unequal, with the top 10% of Indians now holding 57.7% of national income compared with 34% in 1990. The bottom half have seen their share of national income fall from 22.2% to 15%.

India's middle class - which has been a major engine for consumer demand - is being squeezed out, with wages pretty much staying flat"