> I've spent lots of time in India, surrounded by people earning far less than what American hipsters call a "living wage". Yet these folks weren't dead! Bit o

> I've spent lots of time in India, surrounded by people earning far less than what American hipsters call a "living wage". Yet these folks weren't dead! Bit of a survivor bias here, don't you think? Of course you haven't met anyone that died. (Dying is not the only problem, of course - one could live cheaply in a dangerous neighborhood and without heating on the winter and so on.) I'm interested in the links you posted, however - I'll have to read through them.