Y’all don’t know what poverty looks like until you’ve seen it

[Jason Voorhees]

I grew up around upper class neighbourhoods in tier 1 cities in India. Hyderabad and Bengaluru so I lived a very sheltered life. Even the people who came to work in our house were relatively secure the housemaids, servents, drivers they all lived an okaish life. They had wages, some choice of employer, and enough agency that they were not trapped in the household but when I was in the cadet corp. I was posted to a camp in interior rural Punjab near Kapurthala. There I saw how harsh life still is for the rural poor. Power cuts almost everyday. Many Dalit families lived as attached or debt bound labourers. literal bonded slaves who were landless and forced to be working in landlords fields and cattle sheds in housing and conditions below anything I had ever known. Even the lowest wage earners I had seen before were living a more dignified life and in better conditions than whatever this was. That was when I realized how bad the conditions are for some people in this land. All my life I just heard about this kind of poverty but I saw it fr with my own eyes for the first time in my life and that image has stayed with me ever since.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Chadeep @mr007 @Swarthy Knight

 

[IndecentEyes]

agree

 

[highcheekbones]

I grew up around upper class neighbourhoods in tier 1 cities in India. Hyderabad and Bengaluru so I lived a very sheltered life. Even the people who came to work in our house were relatively secure. They had wages, some choice of employer, and enough agency that they were not trapped in the household but when I was in the cadet corp. I was posted to a camp in interior rural Punjab near Kapurthala. There I saw how harsh life still is for the rural poor. Power cuts almost everyday. Many Dalit families lived as attached or debt bound labourers. literal bonded slavs who landless, working landlords fields and cattle sheds in housing and conditions below anything I had ever known. Even the lowest wage earners I had seen were living a more dignified and in better conditions than whatever this was. That was when I realized how bad the conditions are for some people in this land. All my life I just heard about this kind of poverty but I saw it fr with my own eyes for the first time in my life and that image has stayed with me ever since.

i am from posh area in delhi but shit is bad due to the migration

 

[Jason Voorhees]

i am from posh area in delhi but shit is bad due to the migration

I was in Delhi for sometime too. Around vasant kunj

 

[highcheekbones]

I was in Delhi for sometime too. Around vasant kunj

thats a good area crazy how eurocels make fun of it when they will blow their brains out if they see the prices around it

 

[Jason Voorhees]

thats a good area crazy how eurocels make fun of it when they will blow their brains out if they see the prices around it

Meh south delhi is expensive but city centers in major european cities, Bay area, NYC are even more unattainable. Even multi millionaire is middle class in those places

 

[highcheekbones]

Meh south delhi is expensive but city centers in major european cities, Bay area, NYC are even more unattainable. Even multi millionaire is middle class in those places

family is multi deca millionaire gonna push to centi for sure

 

[highcheekbones]

Meh south delhi is expensive but city centers in major european cities, Bay area, NYC are even more unattainable. Even multi millionaire is middle class in those places

central delhi is crazy af one home was sold for 130 m

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Donquixote

 

[Donquixote]

I grew up around upper class neighbourhoods in tier 1 cities in India. Hyderabad and Bengaluru so I lived a very sheltered life. Even the people who came to work in our house were relatively secure the housemaids, servents, drivers they all lived an okaish life. They had wages, some choice of employer, and enough agency that they were not trapped in the household but when I was in the cadet corp. I was posted to a camp in interior rural Punjab near Kapurthala. There I saw how harsh life still is for the rural poor. Power cuts almost everyday. Many Dalit families lived as attached or debt bound labourers. literal bonded slaves who were landless and forced to be working in landlords fields and cattle sheds in housing and conditions below anything I had ever known. Even the lowest wage earners I had seen before were living a more dignified life and in better conditions than whatever this was. That was when I realized how bad the conditions are for some people in this land. All my life I just heard about this kind of poverty but I saw it fr with my own eyes for the first time in my life and that image has stayed with me ever since.

Trve

 

[mr007]

True but being poor and living in city is shit .

All the land is owned by jats .

 

[Jason Voorhees]

True but being poor and living in city is shit .

All the land is owned by jats .

City poor is different from rural poor. Rural poor is more brutal imo

 

[sadcel]

unrelated to the thread, but can't you just larp being a better class in the caste system ?

 

[presible]

Makes you want to make the most out of what you got because some people would kill to have what you have, mirin this post

 

[Chadeep]

Now imagine Africa

 

[mr007]

City poor is different from rural poor. Rural poor is more brutal imo

Cope city poor have to live in terrible environment and dirty streets

 

[IronMike]

I did a port call to Haiti on a 6 month cruise back in 2023, hell on earth

 

[slixzn]

And they cant even escape it

 

[romanstock]

They should just go NEET.

 

[shortcurry375]

I once went to Bihar and there were so many homeless poor people. I thought I’d seen poor people in New Zealand but in India it was completely different. I literally saw peopl living in shacks made of dirt walls with no lighting inside I didn’t know people still lived like that in the 21st century.
I also saw a lot of brown haired Indians. I thought it was cool since I’d never seen an Indian with any color hair except super dark brown. Turns out they just didn’t have access to clean water and so hadn’t showered in so land their hair turned brown and muddy
It put a lot of things into perspective for me