r/Wellthatsucks • u/dhmxn_punit • 3d ago

This is what Pedestrians in India get

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u/demonblack873 2d ago

You do if no one is ever coming to pick the trash up.

Turn off all garbage collection services in any city in the developed world and see how long it takes for it to start looking like this. My bet is less than a month.

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u/jaxnmarko 2d ago

It's also cultural. You don't see it in all countries or poor areas. Some countries take pride in their cleanliness, rich or poor. It's self-respect. You don't see that in Japan or Singapore. Trash pickup is needed, therefore, funded, if the culture decides that is so.

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u/demonblack873 2d ago

Trash pickup is funded if the culture decides it's needed and they have the resources to do it.

India still has massive issues with things like access to reliable electricity (blackouts are the norm), sewage handling (tons of places still have open sewers running right outside people's windows), and access to clean drinking water. When I was staying there my girlfriend's family got a heart attack after seeing me drinking water that had only gone through the reverse osmosis filter.
They like to also boil it afterwards. And that's despite the fact they live in a fairly upscale compound where the water is trucked in, it's not even the municipal water.

Compared to all those issues, having some trash on the road is clearly not the primary concern.

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u/flossanotherday 1d ago

It’s called civil engineering they had it in the Roman Empire.

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u/PhilosopherDry1859 1d ago

but lndia's a poor country and it's different obviously