A labourer was seen carrying heavy concrete blocks on his head as he climbed the stairs all the way to the 21st floor of a building, despite four functional lifts being available on the premises. The video, originally shared by Instagram user Dimps, showed a construction worker slowly making his way up a flight of stairs with two concrete blocks balanced on his head.
The exhausting climb appeared to stretch across several floors, with the worker having to make the journey on foot. While recording the scene, Dimps pointed out that the building had four lifts, but the labourers were not permitted to use them to carry goods upstairs.
What the person filming said
Dimps said on camera that the building has four lifts and that these workers are not allowed to use the lift to carry goods upstairs. He then drew attention to the labourer's long climb, saying the poor workers are climbing the stairs all the way to the 21st floor. Dimps also showed the lifts, which appeared to be functional, before questioning the arrangement, remarking that this is how the country will progress, when the poor have no access to such things despite four lifts in the building.
The reshared post and the reaction
The video was later reshared by X user Amit Singh, who criticised the building's apparent restriction on workers using the lifts. In his caption, he wrote that the worker was being made to carry heavy loads all the way up to the 21st floor despite four lifts being available, adding that they were reserved strictly for residents, and described the arrangement as a pure lack of basic humanity. The clip received sharp criticism from social media users, many of whom were angered by the contrast between the building's facilities and the conditions in which the workers were expected to operate. Some felt that denying labourers access to the lifts, while making them carry heavy construction material up 21 floors, reflected a disturbing disregard for their dignity and well-being. One user went as far as to compare the treatment to slavery, questioning what centuries of civilisation had taught people if they continued to exploit fellow human beings. Another expressed disbelief that a building with four lifts could still require a worker to haul heavy loads up so many flights of stairs. Others were equally scathing about the apparent distinction being made between residents and the people working to build the property, arguing that the workers deserved basic consideration and humane working conditions, and pointing out the irony of a luxury building's facilities being inaccessible to the very people contributing to its construction.
