Posted by alexandra_k on January 1, 2014, at 17:37:16
In reply to Re: how are you doing?, posted by alexandra_k on January 1, 2014, at 17:30:52
actually... i'm not sure if this will interest you or not... but your post got me thinking on something that i've been thinking on recently...
there are a couple youtube videos. i can dig them out if you are interested.
one of them was on quality of life on vanuatu. it is considered a developing or 3rd world nation in terms of the gross domestic product. economics. it doesn't have much money. it doesn't export much stuff. it has a small population with lots of jungle.
but most of the people living in the tribes (on the islands away from the tourist areas) had adequate food. housing. access to community childcare. access to traditional medicines. they rated their quality of life quite high.
so... that first video was about quality of life... and how that can be quite different from money.
the second video was about these people who are making a 3d film of one of the tribes on the outer (most remote) islands. the chief of the tribe... wants people to watch the video and f*ck off and leave him and his tribe alone.
his thinking is that if people introduce money they introduce poverty. when money is introduced then the resources go to the people who come with their money / get sent out to people overseas with money. the people in the tribe end up not having enough to eat or having a nice place to live. not having access to traditional knowledge that teaches them how to have a high quality of life in their environment in a way that is sustainable -- if only the tourists or people bringing money can be kept away.
no money...
would you like to live someplace like that?
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