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by alephnerd·3y ago·view on hn ↗
I think you are misinterpreting the article and my post above, and honestly it is kind of insulting to compare first world house ownership with building unused property in your ancestral town.
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I am really sorry but I am unsure of how I was insulting. I am saying that we all have similar drives in this world, i.e. I was identifying with the migrants. You know little about me but I admit I am fairly middle class and have never lived in any kind of poverty. Perhaps you are saying I can’t empathise with the lives of the migrants?

Maybe I am digging a hole here, but we are in the context of a BBC article about obscenely wealthy old mansions in Tamil Nadu, and also a British documentary by the BBC that feels condescending towards the people it presents, and perhaps an alien depiction of the relatively wealthy migrants. The doco mentions selling a hectare of field for USD400000, and a quote for building a block of flats at USD700000.