Today's #DailyPrompt is illegal extension
Society with regulations, but without proper upholding, can be disastrous. The common norm people believe in is that those in power simply abuse it. They either do not take the necessary steps or are outright corrupt.
It feels like a human disease. Men see, men want. In prehistoric times, this was possible. It could not be considered wrong then, as land was in surplus, and even drinking water was widely available. People moved to places where there was water or land that could be farmed.
Source published 1900 - American 20th Century, Detroit Photographic Company
In the time we live in now, even barren land has value, purely because of its monetary worth. When people migrated into countries, land was allotted to them even in the 1900s, so governments could develop more effectively.
Men do what they see. Acting officials did favors for people and allotted land to them. They realized they were the most powerful people in the system. What was stopping them from doing the same for themselves?
Word spread that officials were doing this for their own benefit. There was no infrastructure to check what had already happened. What was easy years ago became very difficult to execute in developed countries. But it remained quite common in third world countries, or at least that is the perception.
Photo by Nitin Mendekar on Unsplash
That is when people, given even the slightest opportunity to build a ledge or place a piece of brick in front of their property, do it. This is visible in congested streets everywhere. There is no real value in it, only human nature that has been nurtured over ages, and a lack of internalizing the impact it can have.
Surely, if I build a ledge for my car in front of my house, it feels like it is just a small space. There seems to be nothing wrong with it.
