[EB66]

> I'm dumbfounded that anyone knowingly moving there would be dumbfounded that things move at a much slower pace.

That's a pretty rude response and also invalid. He's not dumbfounded at the slower pace of life. He's dumbfounded that a nation of 300k could have a week long electricity outage and not have a single resident capable of fixing the issue or a backup plan ready to activate. It suggests exceptionally poor planning -- even for an island nation in the Pacific.

[guerrilla]

> It suggests exceptionally poor planning -- even for an island nation in the Pacific.

Or the inverse... it suggests a much higher tolerance for inconvenience. We're just spoiled in Europe and America (including at our most popular vacation spots.) People lived for millions of years without this shit, ten thousand years of agricultural civilization alone...

[jlund-molfese]

Inconvenience is understating it, electricity isn't a luxury in the modern world anymore.

What if you can't afford a generator and fuel, and you're medically reliant on a CPAP machine or a chair lift? You may be physically unable to leave your 2nd floor apartment, and unable to call for help because your cordless landline phone no longer has power? Not to mention the financial cost of all the food in your refrigerator spoiling.

All of those things can be accounted for with money. But a government should plan to ensure a certain minimum standard of living for its citizens.

[guerrilla]

Inconvenience is understating a little bit, yes, but not that much.

> What if you can't afford a generator and fuel, and you're medically reliant on a CPAP machine or a chair lift

Virtually everyone on the planet with such a malady is in a similar situation every single day except for some of you Americans and most Europeans.

I'm not saying it should be that way so you don't need to take it that far, I'm just saying some people are seriously spoiled and can't deal with any hardship (let alone the slightest inconvenience) at all anymore. Most people on the planet can, because they have no choice.

[neffy]

Latency and logistics in my experience will always get you. On the similarly populated, but much closer to major landmasses than Vanuatu island I live on, we have had local outages from multiple failures close together. One transformer blows, and there is a replacement in stock for that. But if another one goes, then the new one has to be shipped from abroad, and that will take a few days even when emergency listed. Keeping replacement stock gets expensive as well, has to be checked, maintained, etc. It all adds up.

[folkrav]

Something like 95% of the population are low-income farmers or service workers, are amongst the last 20 or so countries by GDP, and they have a total annual budget of less than $80mil a year. I'd be surprised if it was otherwise...