u/EmployeeRude8525

Hot take of the day

balen posts in his personal facebook page instead of the official PMO facebook page because his facebook is monetized and he gets money from the engagements on the posts.

Change my mind!!

Slums/Sukumbasi Basti/ghettos are not because capitalism failed to reach some people or just because capitalism failed in skme places. Slums are a necessary feature of a capitalistic mode of production. Cities REQUIRE slums for slum dwellers to do dirty and dangerous work in lowest of wages...in the wage that the workers cant even afford rent.

Adding more: Balen demolishing these structures wont FIX anything. maybe they will be relocated to some distant places. but then that will increase their cost of living, which will increase the cost of living in the city of every people. So, either the middle class should be willing to pay more so the slum dwellers can live a better life, or they should be kept in the place where they are not very visible so that their fundamental rights can easily be curtailed(like they do in west asian, gulf countries). and the "beautification" of the city is yet another landmafia-pleasing project. Balen is making things worse. maybe he has good intentions. but things are gonna get wayyy worse, if this mania continues.

Change my mind.