As part of the " Rilindja 2.0 " event, where the mayors were also present, Prime Minister Edi Rama told how one of them had complained to him that citizens had gone out to protest and why he had provided them with the ' services ' they were seeking with roads and the necessary infrastructure.
Rama explained this by saying that the country has entered another phase and that the more developed a society is, the more conditions it requires.
" One of you, irritated, told me that they had come out for some kind of protest and was saying that I found them in the mud, they had no roads, no lighting, filled with garbage, I made their neighborhood into a street with lights and trees. I even put benches, but they are ungrateful."
I believe this is the worst possible misinterpretation of a reaction that normally wouldn't have pleased him, and wouldn't have pleased anyone, especially when you consider what he was saying from the start, and he couldn't understand how a community he had done so much harm to could turn against him.
The fact is that the more conditions improve, the more what is lacking stands out as unacceptable. This is not ingratitude, it is an expectation of different standards. Poor societies...we were a poor society, but we are not anymore. Poor societies are much more tolerant of deprivation.
Because in poor societies, the mentality that is even worse dominates. Developed societies that enter a phase of development where things become reality are increasingly intolerant of shortcomings. It means that success, results, change, do not lower expectations, they raise expectations," Rama said, among other things.