Mods, is this is a good idea?

Please Read!

Ok let's get one thing out of the way: my post wasn't criticizing the the developments of Ethiopia. It was criticizing people who only brought attention to the sky scrapers in the city while disregarding the starving children in the same place. Bringing media attention to the life outside the capital, the struggles faced by kids in afar and tigray (who aren't very likely to have a bright future due to lack of quality education) will pressurise the government to take action.

Do you think that building skyscrapers and adding those expensive streetlights every 20ft are helping the homeless families? Do you think that they are improving the quality of life of mothers and children who have been disowned and have to live on the streets? Do you think that those infrastructure projects are helping improve the quality of education and health care?

Are you aware that for the 2026-27 fiscal year, the Eth government has dedicated ~24% to capital development, which include mainly infrastructure. Meanwhile, they have allocated a mere 0.6% to sustainable development Goals, which include specialized regional poverty reduction and sustainability projects.

You can see the priorities of the government here. Yes, infrastructure will improve the capital visually, but do you seriously think that they will improve the lives of people directly? Do you think that it will improve the quality of life, make food and water more accessible, make electricity cheaper?

And you say that I can just pack up and leave, but let me tell you one thing: high electricity prices are also affecting me as much as it's affecting you. Clean water prices are also affecting me. High gas and petrol prices affect me as much as they affect you.

The government displaced thousands of people for these projects and now they have to pay hefty transportation costs just to go to church.

It's surprising to see how many people start assuming that the people in a country are happy just because the capital city has skyscrapers.

Do you realize that just for one street light, it costs over 38,000 birr. That is enough for a child to go to a good private school for a year. Think about that.

We need to start bringing attention to this, so we can pressurise the government to work on this issue, to start making the lives of people better, as well as the infrastructure development projects (which should happen around Ethiopia, not just Addis, am I right?).

God bless Ethiopia.

edit: link to original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ethiopia/comments/1vfg98o/stop_posting_propaganda_about_ethiopia_next_time/

let's not downvote this post before you read please.

Like bro it's not like overnight you wake up on your 20th birthday and you suddenly start being a PDF file and liking 14 year olds. I think people till like 21-22 should be allowed to be here without being accused of being a pedo (without evidence).

Do y'all agree with me or nah

It says my account has been permanently suspended, and that it will affect my account until 2027 or something. Will my account get deleted or will it become active and useable again at 2027?

If y'all could share your personal experience or anything it would be great

Downvote me all you want for karma farming, but I've got enough of karma so why would I want more

edit: It's common knowledge that problems faced by queer people are far far faaaar more significant, but what I ment was that especially online problems of straight problem dont get as much attention. The motive of this post was for people to stop homophobia and unintentional (and however minor) heterophobic cause I've seen it on Reddit. Sorry you took offence, this goes to everyone else too.