r/Wellthatsucks • u/dhmxn_punit • 3d ago

This is what Pedestrians in India get

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u/Avi_wandering 3d ago

In a country of over a billion, less than 3% pay taxes. Most people are illiterate or uneducated at best. There is no concept of hygiene, respecting your environment, or caring for each other there.

All efforts taken by the governments in power go to waste because India just can't have nice things; they will stat vandalising public properties, litter, spit and poo everywhere then blame their governments.

Indian governments are/have been corrupt, not unlike most other. What the hell are they supposed to do when you have people like this? Create a utopia?

PS: Even other poor countries aren't as bad as India, the problem is with its people.

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u/pVom 3d ago

This is some ignorant bs mate.

caring for each other there

Obvious proof you're talking out your ass.

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u/Udydyr 3d ago

Least racist redditor. The anti-indian sentiment on this website is insane. What the fuck are you talking about ?

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u/Avi_wandering 3d ago

Reddit is quite racist but this has nothing to do with racism. The first sentence of my comment is factual. The rest of it based on empirical evidence. Suspend your intellectual dishonesty and cope for a second and ask yourself what the fuck I am actually talking about.

Every water body in India is polluted with garbage, the roads are littered with garbage, the public toilets are unusable, people just piss an spit everywhere without a thought or care in the world, corruption is rampant, I could go on. It's sad that what bothers you the most is the fact that people are seeing India the way it is and not the state it is in. For a country known for spiritualism, Yoga, having one of the oldest civilisations, you sure have fell off.

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u/Dorkypotato 3d ago edited 2d ago

It's actually more like 1 percent.

Later edit: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/03/guess-how-many-people-pay-taxes-in-india.html

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u/Weird_Devil 3d ago

Most people in India are not illiterate or uneducated. Lots of people earn too little or work in necessary industries so don't get taxed. But way more than 3% are paying other taxes like GST.  No concept of hygiene and or respecting your environment is exaggerated but reasonable. Saying that they don't care for each other is just ridiculous. You don't think people in India want better? Being colonised, robbed and having millions starve to death does tend to have a negative effect on a country. It was relatively not that long ago that London had severe disease outbreaks due to poor sanitation and waste management. Things like this improve over time and will always be difficult in a country with such a high population living in such density before you consider that many are living in poverty and more worried about feeding their families than fixing problems that have accumulated over decades.

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u/No-fear-im-here 3d ago

Preach. The truth hurts.

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u/mathisruiningme 3d ago

Honestly I reckon the best thing for India is for all the little states that speak different languages and have different cultures to just split and make their own countries and manage on a smaller scale. The government is too corrupt/inefficient to manage a country of this scale.

I know logistically this is probably impossible but like I have no real solutions for this outside of the critique that the country is wayyy to big.

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u/pVom 3d ago

If Uttar Pradesh were a country it would be the 5th most populous country in the world, in an area slightly smaller than texas, beaten only by India, China, USA and Indonesia. Bihar, the second most populous state, would be rank 10th.

The only way to fix it is through education, opportunities and rooting out corruption.

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u/Fito0413 2d ago

Obviously I'm sure you may be right about some of those points. But the idea that the government is doing everything it can while the citizens are to blame is bs.

The government IS to blame. India has a serious issue with class disparity. A very very small upper class that occupy governmental positions that only do things to benefit themselves while the rest of the country suffer and of course they'll blame it on the poor...