[chailatte]

Bill gates can't fix

- apathy from upper/middle class towards lower classes

- willingness from normal citizens to live with human feces on the streets, eat in restaurants with huge garbage piles right in front

- spinelessness/cowardness from the voting public

so what if there are smart people in india? they are spineless/uncompassionate/unfeeling/unprideful.

[Cherian_Abraham]

Update - Just realized I just fed a troll. Moving on!

Whoa! Hold on there cowboy!

What have we told you about sweeping generalizations??!!

Not every person in India wakes up every morning to fix social issues. They wake up every morning to go to work, feed their families and you know..do what you and I do - when we turn the other way to the glaring poverty and injustice that is visible in our communities.

[iamshs]

He does look like a troll, always getting top comments on India centric pieces.

[iamshs]

India, Pessimism, Chailatte... jolly good combination. Spineless, apathy, unfeeling....it is like filling the keyword quota for a job description.

As if Bill Gates is there to fix all of your ruses with India. How about letting him do what he is there to achieve, follow his progress, build upon it and do something even better by involving next generation. Or another option is, sit and critique without adding any value? There are lessons to be learnt in any venture, and this will be no different. Relying upon Bill Gates and a time span of even 10 years to solve all those problems you listed? We are not helping the man who made computers ubiquitous and helped eradicate polio in India. Besides, Bill Gates will be heard by the people in upper echelons and young generation and Aamir Khan will help tap the mass population. I wish them luck, I will be following this social initiative closely. More power to them.

[ignostic]

Bill Gates WILL have an impact, even if it's only on a dozen people. So will the people who are inspired by him, and so do the people who have been working with the Indian people for years to make the country better.

The only people who can't fix things like this are people who throw up their hands and say that no one cares. Things can get better, despite the undermining tone of cynics like yourself saying they cannot.

[kamaal]

Not sure what your problem is, India or Bill Gates? You seem to have a problem with both.

>>- apathy from upper/middle class towards lower classes

Why in God's name will a middle class guy, who probably is having a thousand different battles in his own life get up every day morning to work for some body poor? By now, 'the poor' need to realize its not somebody else job do their work. Chances are no one ever will, not just in India but anywhere in the world.

>>- willingness from normal citizens to live with human feces on the streets, eat in restaurants with huge garbage piles right in front

How is this any different than the western world during the Industrial revolution? So some place like the US during the great depression?

You seem to be assuming a passing state of a society as its permanent condition. There are plenty of urban/rural housing settlement/societies in India which are as neat and clean as any western city.

>>- spinelessness/cowardness from the voting public

Care to give a few examples??

>>so what if there are smart people in india?

Now that you acknowledge that there are smart people in India. I guess you better prepare for some darn hard competition coming from us.

>> they are spineless/uncompassionate/unfeeling/unprideful.

Seriously??? How is any different than people in any country in the world. Do you think voting matters or is significant even in a country like the US. How many times were the US citizens able to prevent their country from going to war? Or how many times have they been able to change their unemployment problem themselves?

You seem to have a seriously problem with India, no idea why that is so.

[dscrd]

> Seriously??? How is any different than people in any country in the world. Do you think voting matters or is significant even in a country like the US. How many times were the US citizens able to prevent their country from going to war? Or how many times have they been able to change their unemployment problem themselves?

They managed to stop an ongoing war once (Vietnam). Other than that, how can you tell when a decision to go to war has been overturned because of civilian activity. It seems that at one point, the US was quite bent on attacking Iran, but that never happened.

>You seem to have a seriously problem with India, no idea why that is so.

This is just conjecture, but seeing as this is Hacker News, perhaps he had to work with Indian IT subcontractors at some point in his life. Without having a grander vision of the world that may easily lead to some practical racism.

[biggfoot]

... because it is fun to paint everything with the same brush?