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$30,000 a year "poverty" https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-p... "more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day."
Maybe try restating your point in units of food and shelter. Dollars have no intrinsic value.
$30,000 a year "poverty" https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-p... "more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day."
As with everything in life, context matters.
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Maybe try restating your point in units of food and shelter. Dollars have no intrinsic value.
So perhaps move those poor americans to the third world. They'll feel like top 1% with those dollars.
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> immigration from e.g. Mexico to the US often causes the poverty rate in both countries to rise Both countries? How's that work if it's poor Mexicans coming here?
Fun fact: most immigrants from Mexico are not poor-relative-to-Mexico.
Americans waste enough food to end world hunger http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35884-on-the-news-with-th...
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Fun fact: most immigrants from Mexico are not poor-relative-to-Mexico.
Are we talking about immigrants or "immigrants"? I seriously doubt the immigrants of the illegal -- excuse me, "undocumented" -- variety are anything but poor. That's the reason the Mexican government is so eager to keep the whole thing going -- they get to simultaneously foist their poor upon the US while said poor send back billions in remittances. It's a major industry for Mexico, believe it or not.
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Maybe try restating your point in units of food and shelter. Dollars have no intrinsic value.
So perhaps move those poor americans to the third world. They'll feel like top 1% with those dollars.
A regular income person is a millionaire in South Africa. It caused some problems.
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As with everything in life, context matters.
Context, yes. They can tell me about how they are struggling to make ends meet because of their two car payments and interest only mortgage. That's totally the same as having your kids die from diarrhea, because they get their drinking water straight out of a dirty river and you don't have access to simple medications.
You can't do any of that in California, in any reliable way... and in many parts of the state, $30k/yr just isn't enough to rent an apartment and cover the basics (food, transport, medical care). So yes, the poor in the US are both better and worse off than poor in the developing world.
Americans waste enough food to end world hunger http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35884-on-the-news-with-th...
This is a meaningless metric. Food can't be magically shipped to the regions that need it. A better measurement would be waste per capita or farm land utilization.
Development is hard.