Recall and relevance

When discussing what needed to be done to get Mochudi’s development moving, he wondered if it might be worth erecting a pole with a light in some otherwise empty space and turning it on each night.

Would students start using it to do their homework; people start small repair businesses, and small-scale entrepreneurs start to sell their wares? Last week I kept returning to his whimsical memory but turned it around to wonder what changes he could have considered likely today by turning off the light to which we have become so thoroughly accustomed?