Ok, but wouldn’t just providing clean drinking water for example be more critical for most of those families?
what about villages that already have access to water, should they wait for other things until all villages catchup ?
imagine access to youtube & vast knowledge, may be it will spur the commom folk to take matter into their own hands and improve their lives.
It would be more appropriate to broaden the scale and raise this question in relation to the whole world, not just the other villages.
Should we cancel NASA budget because there were homeless people? Should we reduce public library budget because of people are suffering due to police brutality?
Every section of government is different with its own budget and goals, because a nation can move forward on all fronts.
Nobody is saying that providing clean water is not a priority. Provide fast internet is just a new priority on table. it does not necessarily mean reducing priority for other items.
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Which is a good thing in my opinion. These projects have to be scrutinized thread bare to ensure that they don't degrade the environment. Just look at what is happening in China with the Three Gorges Dam and the flooding of the Yangtze river. People who had land, houses on either side of the river are seeing lands washed away by these floods. Millions were evacuated. Such projects, though provide short term economic benefit, might end up harming the entire ecosystem around it.
I am not saying that you shouldn't do anything about it. Just that it should be done after careful scrutiny. We are not a dictatorship. That is both a boon and a curse. A curse because we can't be as fast as China is in taking decisions. But a boon because we do whatever we do with as much consensus as possible. By not negating stakeholders and by trying to bring as many of them as possible to the table.
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