A slightly different perspective
There are 5,320,724,450 people poorer than me.
Think you're poor?..
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LostinRotation
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Why does the link to donate 1$ to care international contain this??
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Panama Jack
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So what.
None of this indicates anything about wealth (just income levels), nor survivability.
If you are making $100 USD per month, as do many in Latin America, the website still lays the guilt trip on you that you are in the top 36% of the wealthiest of the world's residents. I really don't know how people survive on this amount of money.
To put it in A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, consider all of this when people say that another group of people is making way too much money. The reality is that better than 99% of the world's population could be using a good tug at the bootstraps.
None of this indicates anything about wealth (just income levels), nor survivability.
If you are making $100 USD per month, as do many in Latin America, the website still lays the guilt trip on you that you are in the top 36% of the wealthiest of the world's residents. I really don't know how people survive on this amount of money.
To put it in A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, consider all of this when people say that another group of people is making way too much money. The reality is that better than 99% of the world's population could be using a good tug at the bootstraps.
“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.”
-President Ronald Reagan
-President Ronald Reagan
What really choked me was the poorer middle east; MacDonald's workers made $400 USD per month while some PhDs and higly educated people earned $100 USD, sometimes less...Panama Jack wrote:If you are making $100 USD per month, as do many in Latin America, the website still lays the guilt trip on you that you are in the top 36% of the wealthiest of the world's residents. I really don't know how people survive on this amount of money.
Quite a different world we live in.
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shitdisturber
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A lot of people make less than 100 USD per month. Some are even fat. You have to be in a country where the cost of living is low... Of course...
Then there is no credit cards, no payments, no car, no phone, nothing to pay. Only food and very cheap accomodation. They survive! There are many ways to cook rice... and lamb... Hell the cheapest vodka here is 85 Cents a bottle! .5l And diesel for cars is 32 cents /liter
Then there is no credit cards, no payments, no car, no phone, nothing to pay. Only food and very cheap accomodation. They survive! There are many ways to cook rice... and lamb... Hell the cheapest vodka here is 85 Cents a bottle! .5l And diesel for cars is 32 cents /liter
Success in life is when the cognac that you drink is older than the women you drink it with.
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Panama Jack
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You'll pardon me, Expat, when I say that's bullshit. Yes, if you live in a country where the cost of living is low, you can "get by." It's called "living in poverty." What does this mean? Lack of clean water, basic hygene, services, health care, etc. At this level, credit cards, payments as we know them, cars, phones, etc. are toys of the wealthy. Nothing to pay . . . . well, I don't know about that. Why is prostitution so common in the poorest of countries? Hardly the happy go lucky lifestyle, sitting next to the grass hut on a sandy beach, no electricity, but the local rum is 10 cents a baggie and the coconuts fall from the palms nearby.
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“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.”
-President Ronald Reagan
-President Ronald Reagan
Where the cost of living is low, there is practically no living. I can tell you that I purchased groceries weekly, for 2, at an average price of $100 CDN. A few fruits, bread, some veggies, occasional meat and poultry and clean water at 5$/L.Expat wrote:A lot of people make less than 100 USD per month. Some are even fat. You have to be in a country where the cost of living is low... Of course...
Being a hot area, we both required at least 2 L a day x 5$/L x 30 = 300 $ for drinking.
We also spent some time living with a local family, ate and slept with them. The term "Rations & Hospitality" take up a whole new meaning.
A dear friend of mine put himself through school in Eastern Africa by selling home made yogurts. He purchased the ingredients and sold at a whooping profit of 1 cent. A good day brought him 10-15 cents, 2/3 of which went to his mom, brothers and sisters, and the rest into his schooling fund...
Expat, look closer to see poverty. I recommend you leave your wallet at the hotel and walk around for a week with a 5$ bill. you'll understand what I mean.
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You are all right. Poverty can take many forms. Where I am now, very few people sleep outside, unlike Africa in the refugee camps. I was never referring to refugees, who are in a transitional state. I mean living on a 100 USD salary per month is feasable in most developping countries.
I was in Thailand for my New Year holiday, and spent some time talking to local workers. The same as here, they expressed a wish for moving to Canada or America, and when I told them what they would face if they emigrated, they agreed with me that they were better off there.
One step that they cannot take is that of offering their kids a brighter future. We in Canada can be from a very poor uneducated family, but if we study and make the right moves, we can own the world. For them; no chance, economically and politically they are stuck!
Their only way to rise is to emigrate to a world where everything is possible.
Remember that Frank Stronach and the Bata family were poor immigrants to Canada.
I was in Thailand for my New Year holiday, and spent some time talking to local workers. The same as here, they expressed a wish for moving to Canada or America, and when I told them what they would face if they emigrated, they agreed with me that they were better off there.
One step that they cannot take is that of offering their kids a brighter future. We in Canada can be from a very poor uneducated family, but if we study and make the right moves, we can own the world. For them; no chance, economically and politically they are stuck!
Their only way to rise is to emigrate to a world where everything is possible.
Remember that Frank Stronach and the Bata family were poor immigrants to Canada.
Success in life is when the cognac that you drink is older than the women you drink it with.
Opium, or cannabis in this country where i am is dirt cheap. Hell, even the locals can afford the habit. And the farm workers do not really make a lot of money on it. I think tobacco farming in southern Ontario yields more money. The added value of drugs comes from the risks, which here are not in cultivating but in transport and border crossings.
There is no super rich warlords driving Mercedes-Benz here like you see in the Hollywood crap.
Prostitution is by far a faster way to money.
There is no super rich warlords driving Mercedes-Benz here like you see in the Hollywood crap.
Prostitution is by far a faster way to money.
Success in life is when the cognac that you drink is older than the women you drink it with.
Peanut butter or molasses are American habits and are extremely rare. They may cost up to 12.USD each. Caviar the best Russian kind is 10 USD per 100 gms. Guess what I will bring to Canada next week when I go on leave/
Success in life is when the cognac that you drink is older than the women you drink it with.
