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A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff. Browsing FB would be a

A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff. Browsing FB would be a godsend.

awakeasleep 8y ago
What do you mean by 'world full of BS'? Is it like, people trapped waiting in line for government services? Or something else?
- kochikame 8y ago
  Paying bribes, sitting in traffic, waiting for people who never show up, having the people above you just start knocking out walls or something, being swindled out of wages...
  - wyclif 8y ago
    "Filipino Time" or even "Mañana Time" where you either can never plan for something to start at an exact time and have to wait around, or you show up for an appointment only to find that the people you're supposed to meet/help/interview didn't bother.
endisukaj 8y ago
Because most first-world ubermensch spend filling and productive days doing menial tasks for a living wage. I'm surprised how prejudicial and borderline racist comments like this are upvoted here.
- shriphani 8y ago
  I'm from a developing country with strong family ties to my country of origin (I am not white). Systemic efficiency is really high in the west. Almost top quality in successful countries like Singapore. A trip to some of the not so successful countries in Asia and Africa and it is an eye-opener how much is taken for granted in a rich society.
  - wyclif 8y ago
    Yeah, I think he misunderstood your top-level comment in the thread. I'm in the Philippines and I understood exactly what you are saying even though it might sound negative to woke, politically-correct Western ears. There is a lot I take for granted because I happen to have a USA passport (same could be said for someone from Canada, UK, western Europe, AUS, NZ, etc). The biggest among these things is infrastructure. In a lot of places in the developing world, it just isn't there. And if it is there, it's a fairly slapdash, ad hoc affair. Probably patched together from whatever they could find. No real professional urban planning, either. Likely to be incredibly compromised by political corruption and therefore working only some of the time, since contracts are given to the local warlord's cronies and sycophants. Look at the power grid in the Philippines. If you live anywhere in the provinces, you'll experience constant "brownouts" where the power is redirected or there is no failover capacity. And without that, of course, there is no internet connectivity...

A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff. Browsing FB would be a godsend.

awakeasleep 8y ago

What do you mean by 'world full of BS'? Is it like, people trapped waiting in line for government services? Or something else?

kochikame 8y ago
Paying bribes, sitting in traffic, waiting for people who never show up, having the people above you just start knocking out walls or something, being swindled out of wages...
- wyclif 8y ago
  "Filipino Time" or even "Mañana Time" where you either can never plan for something to start at an exact time and have to wait around, or you show up for an appointment only to find that the people you're supposed to meet/help/interview didn't bother.

endisukaj 8y ago

Because most first-world ubermensch spend filling and productive days doing menial tasks for a living wage. I'm surprised how prejudicial and borderline racist comments like this are upvoted here.

shriphani 8y ago
I'm from a developing country with strong family ties to my country of origin (I am not white). Systemic efficiency is really high in the west. Almost top quality in successful countries like Singapore. A trip to some of the not so successful countries in Asia and Africa and it is an eye-opener how much is taken for granted in a rich society.
- wyclif 8y ago
  Yeah, I think he misunderstood your top-level comment in the thread. I'm in the Philippines and I understood exactly what you are saying even though it might sound negative to woke, politically-correct Western ears. There is a lot I take for granted because I happen to have a USA passport (same could be said for someone from Canada, UK, western Europe, AUS, NZ, etc). The biggest among these things is infrastructure. In a lot of places in the developing world, it just isn't there. And if it is there, it's a fairly slapdash, ad hoc affair. Probably patched together from whatever they could find. No real professional urban planning, either. Likely to be incredibly compromised by political corruption and therefore working only some of the time, since contracts are given to the local warlord's cronies and sycophants. Look at the power grid in the Philippines. If you live anywhere in the provinces, you'll experience constant "brownouts" where the power is redirected or there is no failover capacity. And without that, of course, there is no internet connectivity...