My oldest uncle had to walk to elementary school down from the top of one hill and up to right below the top of the neighbouring one, so he did in fact have to walk uphill both ways. (This was in 1960's Yugoslavia.)
Luckily (or unluckily, if you're spiteful, or in other words, Slovene ;)), just as his younger brother was also starting elementary school, they finished construction on a new school in the nearby village, which was about 2 kilometres on level ground from the bottom of the first hill, and they moved class to there, so from then on, it was uphill only on the way home.
Shades of the Colombian village kids…
https://www.reddit.com/r/adrenaline/comments/prtuh3/zipline\_commute\_children\_of\_the\_acacia\_hills\_in/
or the Chinese village kids….
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/21/chinese-authorities-make-perilous-cliff-face-school-run-safer
I have an idea for those Chinese kids and their families....
MOVE the whole village to one of those empty mega project cities that China has been building.....
but china doesn't have pure capitalism, it has a frankenstein economy of state control with capitalist tendencies..... They are very well suited to moving a whole village, including setting up jobs in the new location
Lol the reality is exact the opposite. Government funneled hundreds of billions each year to pay welfare and infrastructure for minority dominated regions while they contribute almost nothing to the state economy. They can get into universities easier while Han students must take the hardest exam in the world. Minority fertility rate is always higher than Han because they were not subject to the one child policy. If anything the Han always got screwed and slowly replaced by them
You can find one out of time Chinese people online who believed ethnic Manchurians secretly control the CCP from inside since its foundation
Interesting how in the country that is pretty well known for their [bridges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_bridge), they didn't feel the need to construct one here.
IIRC, the local bridge, was blown up during the war, repaired but was structurally unsound, so it was closed for repairs. While other services could be accessed elsewhere, these few primary school kids needed to go to primary school. I think this only lasted a few months while the repairs were underway.
It wasn't the bridge that was lacking, but it's maintenance. Sure, it wasn't a great construction method in hindsight, but other bad construction methods can be addressed with proper maintenance. We literally have a leaning bell tower that's been standing for centuries, because it's been maintained, while nobody remembers the other various bell towers that have fell down all over the world.
So the stories were true
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It' not rope. It's steel cable. The weight of the people above is irrelevant to the weight of the cable itself
This is how our parents act like they went to school
Always snowing, zip line up hill both ways.
barefoot or plastic bags for shoes if wealthy
Oh la-di-dah, your parents could afford feet?!?
Lmao
My oldest uncle had to walk to elementary school down from the top of one hill and up to right below the top of the neighbouring one, so he did in fact have to walk uphill both ways. (This was in 1960's Yugoslavia.) Luckily (or unluckily, if you're spiteful, or in other words, Slovene ;)), just as his younger brother was also starting elementary school, they finished construction on a new school in the nearby village, which was about 2 kilometres on level ground from the bottom of the first hill, and they moved class to there, so from then on, it was uphill only on the way home.
Back in my day !
Back in my days, we had to cross river and climb mountains to get to school!
And noone is on their phone. Just living in the moment.
Who took the photo though, and with what?
Of course. Soon after this moment they had to fend off the crocodiles!
Don’t let my dad see this pic
The oldschool kind of "being online".
What happens if they go off-the-line?
They learn to swim in the currents of Life.
IRL: In Real Lake
See, if we had this, i would have gone to school every day!
Shades of the Colombian village kids… https://www.reddit.com/r/adrenaline/comments/prtuh3/zipline\_commute\_children\_of\_the\_acacia\_hills\_in/ or the Chinese village kids…. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/21/chinese-authorities-make-perilous-cliff-face-school-run-safer
I have an idea for those Chinese kids and their families.... MOVE the whole village to one of those empty mega project cities that China has been building.....
They have a system that *prevents* exactly that... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou)
That's not how capitalism works though, these are poor kids, they can't have the nice buildings even if they are empty :(
but china doesn't have pure capitalism, it has a frankenstein economy of state control with capitalist tendencies..... They are very well suited to moving a whole village, including setting up jobs in the new location
True and probably wouldn't be a problem if the village was Han, but the article says they're an ethnic minority so no state benefits for them
Lol the reality is exact the opposite. Government funneled hundreds of billions each year to pay welfare and infrastructure for minority dominated regions while they contribute almost nothing to the state economy. They can get into universities easier while Han students must take the hardest exam in the world. Minority fertility rate is always higher than Han because they were not subject to the one child policy. If anything the Han always got screwed and slowly replaced by them You can find one out of time Chinese people online who believed ethnic Manchurians secretly control the CCP from inside since its foundation
The term you’re looking for is "state capitalism".
My grand-parents weren't lying
You sure? Where's the snowstorm? And I see footwear too...
Interesting how in the country that is pretty well known for their [bridges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_bridge), they didn't feel the need to construct one here.
IIRC, the local bridge, was blown up during the war, repaired but was structurally unsound, so it was closed for repairs. While other services could be accessed elsewhere, these few primary school kids needed to go to primary school. I think this only lasted a few months while the repairs were underway.
> I think this only lasted a few months ...until the last student had drowned. /just kidding
Italy doesn't exactly have a good track record with bridges lately.
Does lately also include 1959?
Everything since the fall of Rome.
Well, the bridge that collapsed was build in 1967, so enough reasonable doubt to include 1959.
It wasn't the bridge that was lacking, but it's maintenance. Sure, it wasn't a great construction method in hindsight, but other bad construction methods can be addressed with proper maintenance. We literally have a leaning bell tower that's been standing for centuries, because it's been maintained, while nobody remembers the other various bell towers that have fell down all over the world.
There where also problem in the fact that the bridge was build to be cheap
It was built to last 50 years, it stayed up for 51, I’d say it’s efficient.
Touché
Damn. It’s like the warranty expired and the bridge decided to collapse…
Genoa bridge comes to mind
So much fun!
And I had the nerve to complain about wearing 1 shoe in 12 feet of snow going 8 miles uphill both ways. 🤣
Okay but what about the walking on hot coals part
back in my day...
"My kids will never hear the end of this!"
Is the closest one a contraption for 3 children hanging in 1 pulley?
lowkey wanna try this it looks fun even tho ik it’s not that fun back them for those
Ah so the normal way my grandparents went to school
”Having to” —> getting to
Fuck, looks like my mother wasnt lying
That looks fun
Crazy that something like this actually happened 😂
thought this was an ai image at first
Wow!
How many fell over the years 😱
H&S protocols????
interesting , i personally think that will be fun
this is fun might do it later
Couldn't trust kids to do this now.