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    So what do you do for work? I'm a check valve...

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    Can you order one of these on Ebay?!

    Ok the kit comes with:
    1 check valve
    1 counterweight
    1 drive mechanism
    Some bamboo and poly pipe

    Even has intuitive controls

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    The 'Poverty Trap' is brutal.

    They only have their own time to spend instead of money.

    It takes three of them a half hour to pump the same amount of water any one of us could pump by flipping a switch for 30 seconds.
    Their time is spent in very low-level tasks, which devours their time, which is the only true riches we have (as far as building civilization).

    Sigh . . . it is truly a broken world.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CharlesWaugh View Post
    The 'Poverty Trap' is brutal.

    They only have their own time to spend instead of money.

    It takes three of them a half hour to pump the same amount of water any one of us could pump by flipping a switch for 30 seconds.
    Their time is spent in very low-level tasks, which devours their time, which is the only true riches we have (as far as building civilization).

    Sigh . . . it is truly a broken world.
    OTOH, hand some high school quarterback a piece of bamboo and task him to get water out of a hole. Hand these impoverished folks a piece of modern junk and I'll wager they can think of a dozen ways to repurpose it in the time it takes a quarterback to google its original use.



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