[AnotherUnixGeek]

Good thing India has licked poverty and squalor and has extra money for artistic pursuits.

No nation that has ever existed has solved every bit of poverty and squalor. We haven't, and we're the richest nation that has ever existed. And yet, nations build monuments - they inspire people and inspire unity.

[freedumb2003]

>>No nation that has ever existed has solved every bit of poverty and squalor. We haven’t, and we’re the richest nation that has ever existed. And yet, nations build monuments - they inspire people and inspire unity.
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India is one of the most poverty-stricken hellholes in the world. Many, if not most, of the population gets water by drinking it straight from the sewers (for example).

The most poor, “deprived” American would have a middle-class plus lifestyle in any other country in the world and one the upper class in India.

MOst of the world will see the irony, though.

[trisham]

And when the next idiot comes into power, those monuments are often torn down.