Finally got around to watching this. Utterly brutal.
Completely so. I guess the casual violence mentioned in the video (passengers attacking the drivers and the guys asking them to pay, smashing windows or setting the buses on fire, cops beating up the rickshaw drivers if they don't give them fucking
10 cent bribes
) is at least partly due to the stress of living such miserable existence and knowing that you have no choice and there's nothing you can change about it. Well OK, a lot of those guys are rural migrants who moved to the city to make some money to support their families in the countryside, so I guess they have the choice of stopping that and going back to just being farmers or something without even those meagre incomes. Those people had one shot at life, and they were born into a place where getting on the bus means running along it and heckling with and threatening the conductor to let you board through the bus' perpetually open windows, all the while making less money in your life than an above-average person in the rich countries makes in a month. They all know they are replaceable and don't matter to anyone except their families, they will never make an impact on the world, and don't even have any chance of travelling the world, and all the nice stuff they see on TV and such is just taunting them with how unreachable it is for them.
Beyond over.
Wait...you guys aren't getting paid 3 pounds a day? I mean minimum wage is 87 pounds (conversed to medieval city) in my country and businesses are notorious for not paying that amount. Most people actually earn 15,95 sterling
The ridiculous income differences between developed and developing countries are painfully underdiscussed to be honest. On the internet, you have a lot of Americans mocking their poorer Anglo/European/East Asian peers for making half or a third of what Americans make, and the gap growing wider, as well as a lot of Europeans especially despairing over that, but other than that, nothing. People do talk about greater income differences, but that usually just defaults into differences inside rich countries and it gets turned into
everyone vs billionaires talk, so that people making 100k a year can feel included I guess. But the orders of magnitude income differences between ordinary people in different parts of the world get attention much less often, to the point I really think a lot of people just don't understand how great those differences are, all just I guess that type of discourse makes people uncomfortable. Or because they are so large that they are just hard to grasp and imagine what they mean.
"Oppressor."
"Oppressed."
idk how third worlders survive they’re fking tigers
