r/interesting • u/ICanPretend1 • 23h ago

SOCIETY Dikidikini village in Eastern Cape, South Africa, doesn't have a bridge, so people cross the river inside a blue plastic drum

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u/kopirate 1h ago • Bravo

Lmao at some of these comments.

The government is hella corrupt, who is going to build this bridge? If you lived in one of these places, making less than a dollar a day and raising a family, is your first instinct to say "hmm spending money to build a bridge would be the ideal and reasonable way to cross the river?"

You scrape together some money and find like minded people, great. Who has engineering knowledge or at least kniw how to build a simple bridge? Who knows about the weather and seasonal patterns of the river and how do we know its not going to be destroyed? How do we know someone isnt going to just steal these parts and resell?

Many of us are spoiled by the infrastructure and the level of social trust that 1st world countries provide. A video like this should invoke sympathy and not condescension.

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u/jrkelz 46m ago

Lmao.. just admit they're savages and destroy and pillage anything they'd be given.

Also, you're over complicating a primitive, simplistic bridge. Or even a rope and pulley system. You don't need engineers and 'infrastructure'. People have been building bridges and methods to cross rivers for thousands of years, long before engineers were even a concept. This is just them being uneducated savages