The east Indian city of Kolkata has banned hand-pulled rickshaws after a debate that raged for more than a year and ended in a vote boycotted by the opposition.
I never realized that there were still places on earth where people were pulling rickshaws. And why would they not be pulling rickshaws? The poor people who are pulling the rickshaws HAVE to do something to feed there families, and this is as a god and honest job.
The city of Kolkata is endangering the livelyhood of all those poor rickshaw-pullers by introducing this ban. But those who are in charge have obvious enough money to drive around in big cars, so they won't care.
I was just wondering if the next step would be something like: everyone has to prepare his/her own food, as it is rediculous to have someone preparing your food. And the same can be said of course for cleaning your house etc.
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P.S. I have a beautiful picture of a poor Indian guy pulling a rickshaw, borrowed it this morning from Yahoo, but Blogger doesn't let me upload it today. Bad luck, tomorrow better.
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