http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi
Dashrath Majhi's wife, Falguni Devi died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a doctor was 70 km away from their village in Bihar, India. Dashrath did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he single-handedly carved a 360-foot-long (110 m), 25-foot-high (7.6 m) and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) road by cutting through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from 75 km to 8 km, bringing him international acclaim.
Dashrath Majhi's wife, Falguni Devi died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a doctor was 70 km away from their village in Bihar, India.
Dashrath did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he single-handedly carved a 360-foot-long (110 m), 25-foot-high (7.6 m) and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) road by cutting through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from 75 km to 8 km, bringing him international acclaim.
So your solution is people setting their lives on the back burner for 22 years to do what could have easily and quickly been accomplished by a more responsive and better-funded government?
If it could have been done better by a government... Why wasn't it?
Joke -_-
Aware. I had the Philip J Fry meme in my head..
Not you :P
But of course the good-hearted governments of the world would have done this! Right?
SkepticalMetal: But of course the good-hearted governments of the world would have done this! Right?
Government is THE PEOPLE so he did not do it. Government did.
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My god that is epic!
Sphairon:So your solution is people setting their lives on the back burner for 22 years to do what could have easily and quickly been accomplished by a more responsive and better-funded government?
I thought you were an anarchist, Sphairon. What happened?
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Nothing, really. I guess the story makes for a nice anecdote, but since it was posted in the "political theory" subforum, it was implied that there was some relevance for libertarian political theory that I find hard to decipher.
Well at the very least, I'd say it shows how the government is absolutely not necessary for building roads.
My Indian friend told me that in India, the government is so corrupt and people don't expect it ever to accomplish anything, so their attitude is: "screw it; I'll do it myself". So, people do things themselves, this guy being an extreme example.
Interestingly, in Russia, the attitude is between: "screw it, it will never got done" and "it will somehow get done by itself", so nothing ever gets done.
Very interesting. I'm very convinced that regime uncertainty is a large factor as to why private business doesn't do many of the thing government "must" do.