The Cost Of Living In An Under-developed Country
The story shows human sufferings in the 21st century owing to neo-colonial socio-economic policies
How joyful and entertained it seems when you keep your paces with the progress of the world that put all the comfort and convenience in front of you. You just use technology to get everything at home without any hindrances. What’s more, everything from a car parked in your home to a bathroom cleaner agent belongs to a well-known brand. You prefer quality brand everywhere no matter how much you need to pay. It’s all about money that does matter in securing such a higher position.
Struggle of the poor:
On the contrary, there are people who have no interest in keeping their paces with the development of the world. They do not care what is happening around. What they just care is about their children waiting for food at home. They work all the day long in the scorching heat without taking care of what happens to themselves. Even though they work all the day long, they hardly gather some amount of money to bring food for their children. They have just convinced themselves to the point that they are the inferior class in the progressive world as they don’t have any technological skill to show themselves competent. However, they are the people with big hearts and highly contented. Despite asking anyone else for help, they directly seek daily wages work and bring food for their offspring. In the worst times, when they don’t get work easily, they offer their services even in the cheapest rates from $2 to $5 a day. Honestly speaking, we have been so selfish that even though we have a lot of money, we want them to do everything at cheapest rates. Even knowing the fact that with this money he will be able to feed his children one meal at a time with great difficulty.
Moreover, many poor parents found guilty in killings of their offspring as they feel humiliated and ashamed that they cannot even afford their children’s meal a day. If they do not get any work once a day, they come home late night as the darkness surrounds them and they enters from back door of the house so that no one of their children could notice him. What an embarrassing moment for a father it could be that he can hardly feed his children even after so much struggle.
However, if a family, In case, whose bread earner passes away, or he is unable to work with a disability, then their family send children to work so that they could have some food in a day from their earnings. Since the use of child labor is strictly prohibited internationally, the employers restrict and harras children aptly by defining that crime first and then he/ she hire the same children with the cheapest rates than that of fixed by the government. When the child considers he/ she remained the sole responsible to run a house. He/ she comes forward and plays due role to gather some amount so that they could get some food a day.
Inefficient Local Government
The services provided by any government sector i.e., food, shelter, health, education and employment are not so much qualitative that lead people even more backward. There are no roads or infrastructure that can easily join all surrounded areas in order to enhance connectivity and employment. Private mafias have sprung up in place of government schools and colleges to educate their children, and doctors seem to be taking good care of their patients in private hospitals instead of government institutions. Every basic rights providing agency seems promoting the private sector which has turned the life of the poor even more worsening.
One of the irony of this development in the 21st century is that the people in many developing countries are suffering from hunger, misery and poverty. They don’t have a proper hospital system and even if they do have, it can be seen in a big city several miles away from towns and villages. There is such a rush of patients that the number of the patient who got admitted today will be treated several days later, even if the patient is suffering from heart disease.
The situation of the educated class in these countries is not much better. Many Master and graduate degree holders are deprived of modern technological and political skills. They cannot continue their career journey as the people living in developed countries do. Most of the graduate students work part time in hotels or restaurants in order to meet their daily expenses. Their career level has been ruined.
It is sad to say that in spite of having so much wealth in this world, people starve their children to death and even if they unfortunately have two loaves of bread, they feed their children and starve themselves and fall asleep. In fact, these circumstances are still happening in this world today.
You will find such situations almost in developing countries. Where even today there is the interference of those powers who once established their colonies and came with the charter to educate and aware the native people. These regions are home to more than half of the world’s population. It shows that more than half of the world’s population is at the mercy of their circumstances created by worsened poverty.
Final Thoughts:
After understanding all this, you may come to address problems very quickly that the today’s modern age is based on technology and economy and hence it is impossible for a developing country to get to the track of prosperity without the support of big powers. However, with regard to big powers, these poor countries are given such social and economic policies which create further hurdles instead of progress. And to get them out of such hurdles, they are given loans and funds along with the road map where and why these funds could be used. These atrocities are against the native people, which started in the last century, are wide-spreading rapidly in the 21st century. A lot has been happened now but people will not tolerate it anymore. In the way of technological or economic growth, the native people have been furthermore manipulated or exploited even till today.
Today, observing the plight of such human suffering, I wish I could take the world away from the poisonous addiction of accumulating property and wealth and make them drink a wine of humanity so that they could live a prosperous new life; free of greed, wealth, brand etc., A life Where people spend much of its earning on alleviating poverty instead of expensive cars and other brands; Where killing a human being is considered a great sin; Where people throw away guns and prefer sharing love and happiness.
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