"We know what you are thinking. It sounds too much for those rickshaw pullers? How about half the price? Or whatever you think is fair. Can you set this a goal for all politics and policy-making that government and political parties and the leaders would not stop the working hard until this basic goal is acheived. Start from this basic declaration. Then go forward in stipulating few more items that makes the nation a progressively civilized one where more citizens start using their knowledge to earn a living instead of using labour for a living."
You also mentioned that you would agree for half the price/length. So, there is no problem. Lets work towards that goal, would we?
Let me finish the response with an aside, since you offered one. Have you ever tried to pull a rickshaw in the muddy roads in the village of Bangladesh? Or, to make it easier for you, lets assume the road is not muddy, but it is non-pacca. Would you go there and try it out for yourself and see whether that experience change your opinion?
Oh, we forgot. You are in Canada, taina? Rickhshaw try korte deshe jete tu onek taka lagbe, right? So, lets make it even easier. How about we let you go to one of the muddy trails and pull a chakka-wala stroller? Would you let others know how much would you agree to be paid for that kind of menial work?
And for those who are in Bangladesh, please go find a non-pacca road, or a vanga-chura pacca road. Arrange a rickshaw trip for about 1000m. Once a price is agreed upon, based on prevailing market rate - you should politely ask the rickshaw-wala if it would be OK if you tried to pull the rickshaw instead of him. Invite him to ride the rickshaw in place of you. Please be careful, you might hurt you, hurt the rickshaw-puller or most importantly, you might break the rickshaw. Make sure you have enough funding to compensate for the rickshaw- puller or his money-maker if something happens to them.
Once everything is agreed upon, try to pull the rickshaw. Yes, I mean it. All of you in Bangladesh reading this message, you should go out and try out this assignment this upcoming Friday - do it early in the morning so the roads are not busy and it is somewhat easier for you. Thats a request to each of you who are not yet 40 years old! Do this favour as a gratitue of being not born in the house of a rickshaw-puller, would you?