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Date Posted: 12:54:54 02/16/00 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: A case of ownwership + OTHER FACTORS TOO
In reply to: 's message, "Isn't it a case of ownwership?" on 15:50:24 02/15/00 Tue

One of the most important lessons of rural development is that people be able to distinguish needs from wants. Wants are those things you wish for, just because they are glitter or kargo. It comes from our biological instincts to possess territory and trinkets for our cave homes. Interesting things attract us, and so we want them. But that doesn't mean that they actually fit into the needs we have in our lives. I'm not talking about small needs, I'm talking about the big needs, where there is a problem blocking us satisfying those needs. We are really motivated to remove that blockage, solve the problem, and address our needs.

People in PNG always talk about needing money. If money is a true need, and not just a want, then why are so many people so lazy when it comes to making money? They quit jobs at the least problem, or if the pay is too low. In other countries, people work like dogs for almost nothing.

This should be a clue that people wish for money and it is a hunger that is more like asking Father Xmas for presents. In the end, they can satisfy their main needs without money, and so if it's too hard to make money, they just won't do it.

Water supplies are usually a want, not a need. Yes, people have to walk some distance to get water, but the men don't have to do it, and the women are often unempowered and forced to do it, and accept that fate. Even so, it may not be that much work. Not much work, compared to maintaining a water supply, or going through the hassle and uncertainty of getting the education and necessary skills to keep that water supply going, including finding sources of money to buy the parts for repair.

Thus, the water system collapses but small wonder. It wasn't much of a need in the first place, so people were never much motivated to keep it going.

Again: The answers are staring all of us in the face, but we just refuse to accept them.

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