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Originally Posted by meme405
You realize that this is exactly what the government does with most communities right?
They spend inordinate amounts to service remote communities of anywhere from 100 to several thousand with postal, clean water, sewage treatment, electricity, communication, etc.
Money that logically based on the userbase they will never recoup ever.
This has been in the news constantly over the last decade, that large swaths of canada dont have access to treated drinking water, or good access to comms/electricity, and the outrage was huge. Here is an article from literally a month ago:
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articl...ater-advisory/
If you google it there is a hundred outlining the exact same thing.
Hell Ontario was about to a hundred million on starlink to service some of these places, cause that was cheaper to the option of having to run trunk lines.
Again I wasnt making the argument that Canada is a third world country, neither for that matter is the US, but what I am saying is there is impoverished and suffering people on both sides of the border. |
I understand that but it isn't unlimited, nor is comparing the remote living conditions in a town of 200 in Saskatchewan to crumbling infrastructure in a city of over a million like San Antonio.
Quality of life in the US on average is lower than ours for the average person and that won't change unless we get rid of public health or they get public health. It's measurable right in life expectancy, which probably would skew far heavier if you were to look at the bottom 50% of earners even further.
That said I don't think reservations should have the same caveats as other remote communities, based on the fact that these places existed as a choice of the government, and not necessarily the communities themselves.
Their purpose was to segregate indigenous people unfairly and as a result they should be able to have whatever is necessary paid for by the government.