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"We know what's best for rural Indian poor" proclaims millionaire with her own catering. Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children

"We know what's best for rural Indian poor" proclaims millionaire with her own catering. Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children don't have toilets and clean water.

panglott 11y ago
Reminds me of RFK's 1968 trip to Appalachia while the Apollo program was underway.
monochromatic 11y ago
> "We know what's best for rural Indian poor" proclaims millionaire with her own catering. Of all the (many, many) things that are worth criticizing about Hillary, I'm not sure this is one of them.
denzil_correa 11y ago
> Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children don't have toilets and clean water. Fallacy of Relative Privation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
- SixSigma 11y ago
  Like Kim Il Jong eating while his people starve, I guess that's the same fallacy
  - nivla 11y ago
    That is not the same fallacy. That is one person who controls the nation sitting on an immense amount of wealth while his people starve. India doesn't have a huge wealth tucked under its bed that it refuses to redistribute to its citizens. Let me put this into perspective for you, even distributing 1 billion dollars to its citizens barely makes each person richer by only a dollar!
    - SixSigma 11y ago
      Thanks for the perspective, I feel so stupid. I'm sure spending $1bn on clean water and sewage in the some of the most populous cities on earth would be equally pointless.
nivla 11y ago
> Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children don't have toilets and clean water. These arguments are the worst as it conveniently misses the mark of the real world conditions. Yes India did spent on the Mars mission (a whopping $74mil) and in turn it actually got contracts to do launches for other countries and private corporations. So all in all a positive return on Investment. You see you start with $X and you make $X*2 which would now serve your purpose better than it would have before. Well on the bright side atleast you dint say lets decommission the NASA until we solve the problem of homelessness in US.
mikeash 11y ago
Is your second sentence a sarcastic suggestion that they shouldn't be sending rockets to Mars and should instead put those resources towards helping rural Indian poor people? If so, what makes your ideas of what's best for them any better than this person's?

"We know what's best for rural Indian poor" proclaims millionaire with her own catering. Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children don't have toilets and clean water.

panglott 11y ago

Reminds me of RFK's 1968 trip to Appalachia while the Apollo program was underway.

monochromatic 11y ago

> "We know what's best for rural Indian poor" proclaims millionaire with her own catering. Of all the (many, many) things that are worth criticizing about Hillary, I'm not sure this is one of them.

denzil_correa 11y ago

> Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children don't have toilets and clean water. Fallacy of Relative Privation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation

SixSigma 11y ago
Like Kim Il Jong eating while his people starve, I guess that's the same fallacy
- nivla 11y ago
  That is not the same fallacy. That is one person who controls the nation sitting on an immense amount of wealth while his people starve. India doesn't have a huge wealth tucked under its bed that it refuses to redistribute to its citizens. Let me put this into perspective for you, even distributing 1 billion dollars to its citizens barely makes each person richer by only a dollar!
  - SixSigma 11y ago
    Thanks for the perspective, I feel so stupid. I'm sure spending $1bn on clean water and sewage in the some of the most populous cities on earth would be equally pointless.

nivla 11y ago

> Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children don't have toilets and clean water. These arguments are the worst as it conveniently misses the mark of the real world conditions. Yes India did spent on the Mars mission (a whopping $74mil) and in turn it actually got contracts to do launches for other countries and private corporations. So all in all a positive return on Investment. You see you start with $X and you make $X*2 which would now serve your purpose better than it would have before. Well on the bright side atleast you dint say lets decommission the NASA until we solve the problem of homelessness in US.

mikeash 11y ago

Is your second sentence a sarcastic suggestion that they shouldn't be sending rockets to Mars and should instead put those resources towards helping rural Indian poor people? If so, what makes your ideas of what's best for them any better than this person's?