What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?

rolph wrote: post #2

it can get even worse. i wonder how many people here have had to live on however many empty beer cans you can collect and cash in in a day.

Just wait until they figure out how to make a guillotine out of those beer cans, they will eat good that day.

Re: What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?

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Post by H8crilA » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 4:40 AM UTC

It's important to remember that the world has been unbelievably successful at getting people out of extreme poverty (inflation-adjusted $1.9 per day). We went from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 0.65 billion in 2018. Ways to go, but it is a truly amazing achievement of humanity. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the past 30 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

Re: What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?

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Post by icelancer » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 4:44 AM UTC

falcongod082 wrote: post #3

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The first world's needless cry of "exploitation!" is the third world's actual opportunity.

Re: What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?

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Post by falcongod082 » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 4:46 AM UTC

icelancer wrote: post #6

falcongod082 wrote: post #3

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The first world's needless cry of "exploitation!" is the third world's actual opportunity.

I keep telling people that, but they get mad when I give them opportunities to serve me.

Re: What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?

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Post by watersb » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 4:47 AM UTC

rolph wrote: post #2

it can get even worse. i wonder how many people here have had to live on however many empty beer cans you can collect and cash in in a day.

I haven't had to go that far, but for about six months I had a food budget of less than $2 per day.

If I had needed to pay for housing, health care, everything on $2 I am not sure how I would do so.

Re: What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?

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Post by diminoten » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 4:49 AM UTC

falcongod082 wrote: post #7

icelancer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first world's needless cry of "exploitation!" is the third world's actual opportunity.

I keep telling people that, but they get mad when I give them opportunities to serve me.

They certainly do not get mad when you give them jobs.

Re: What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?

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Post by falcongod082 » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 4:51 AM UTC

H8crilA wrote: post #5

It's important to remember that the world has been unbelievably successful at getting people out of extreme poverty (inflation-adjusted $1.9 per day). We went from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 0.65 billion in 2018. Ways to go, but it is a truly amazing achievement of humanity. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the past 30 years. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

Well, it's not nothing...but making the ridiculously poor slightly less poor isn't something I'd call an "amazing achievement" since it's stupid easy to make them not poor.