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To add to that hypocrisy, there's also the outrage when jobs go to the most impoverished in other countries, rather than be given to comparatively wealthy weste
by qrendel 11y ago
To add to that hypocrisy, there's also the outrage when jobs go to the most impoverished in other countries, rather than be given to comparatively wealthy westerners at the expense of both the companies and foreign communities.
If you're single w/ no dependents and making $54k or more a year, you are already in the top 1% of the global population by income.[1] Makes a lot of the anti-1% stuff come off as extremely hypocritical.
[1] https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/ https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/
- vkou 11y agoIf you completely ignore purchasing power, you can make up any statistics about income you want. ~50% of the world's population has a negative, or a zero net worth - I guess the homeless person with two dollars in his pocket is better off then a janitor who owns an underwater house, or a freshly graduated doctor.
- qrendel 11y agoAcross all goods, purchasing power is still lower for the median worker in an impoverished country compared to the median western worker. Look at the price of all goods you can afford (healthcare, electronics, etc), not just a few specific items like food and rent. Many of those may not even be available in the poorer country at any realistic price. That aside, an equivalent USD wage will still provide for more people in a poor country than in a rich one.