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You can get high speed internet in many parts of the developing world for less than 20 dollars a month - its amazing really. You can buy food, pay rent and uti

You can get high speed internet in many parts of the developing world for less than 20 dollars a month - its amazing really. You can buy food, pay rent and utils - live near a sunny beach for less than 50 dollars a month. Of course if all SF software engineers cut their debt shackle - and used global inequality for their advantage it would wreck havoc to the current pecking order of tech capitalists. It would allow tech workers to turn into entrepreneurs and work full time on their own ideas, create new competition and scare wall street that is dependent on recycling your wage through rent so that you actually keep a small amount of your real income. Ofcourse no one is going to do it besides radicals like Glenn Greenwald since freedom is not useful as prestige to the average person.

quirkafleeg 10y ago
> You can buy food, pay rent and utils - live near a sunny beach for less than 50 dollars a month. Can you give an example of such a place, where the total cost of rent, food and utilities (water, electricity) amounts to less than 50 USD per month?
- wrong_variable 10y ago
  Hey ! I cannot give away the place I am connecting from without giving away too much information. But within the EU I remember small Remote Romanian Towns. http://www.hobotraveler.com/budgets/list-of-countries-where-you-can-live-for-500-dollars-per-month.php http://www.hobotraveler.com/budgets/list-of-countries-where-... here is a list that I just found. The important think to remember is that a huge part of humanity lives on less than 2 dollars a day. Wealth among the poorest has increased over the last 20 years but that does not matter. I think now about 1 billion people live on 2 dollars a day - It used to be 3 billion when I was younger. If you go down the list above you will start to have to trade security for cheapness. However having a laptop does not make someone rich anymore these days. Somalia for example, my friend who has been there has told me that fibre seems to be everywhere ! However You do not have to go to Somalia, you can choose a country based on factors that is important to you.
  - mirkules 10y ago
    I doubt the veracity of this list. As an example, a flat in Belgrade, Serbia would run you 400 euros a month if you're lucky. That's almost 14 eur/day. Food alone can be over the $12 daily limit. I'd caution anyone from taking this list seriously because it is based on reported income alone. There is a combination of credit purchasing and unreported income (cash exchange), each of which means cost of living is higher. According to this [0] cost of living is $400+ without rent, which is a bit steep but much closer to the actual cost. [0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Belgrade?seeThePricesForMobile=true https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Belgrade?seeThePric...

quirkafleeg 10y ago

> You can buy food, pay rent and utils - live near a sunny beach for less than 50 dollars a month. Can you give an example of such a place, where the total cost of rent, food and utilities (water, electricity) amounts to less than 50 USD per month?

wrong_variable 10y ago
Hey ! I cannot give away the place I am connecting from without giving away too much information. But within the EU I remember small Remote Romanian Towns. http://www.hobotraveler.com/budgets/list-of-countries-where-you-can-live-for-500-dollars-per-month.php http://www.hobotraveler.com/budgets/list-of-countries-where-... here is a list that I just found. The important think to remember is that a huge part of humanity lives on less than 2 dollars a day. Wealth among the poorest has increased over the last 20 years but that does not matter. I think now about 1 billion people live on 2 dollars a day - It used to be 3 billion when I was younger. If you go down the list above you will start to have to trade security for cheapness. However having a laptop does not make someone rich anymore these days. Somalia for example, my friend who has been there has told me that fibre seems to be everywhere ! However You do not have to go to Somalia, you can choose a country based on factors that is important to you.
- mirkules 10y ago
  I doubt the veracity of this list. As an example, a flat in Belgrade, Serbia would run you 400 euros a month if you're lucky. That's almost 14 eur/day. Food alone can be over the $12 daily limit. I'd caution anyone from taking this list seriously because it is based on reported income alone. There is a combination of credit purchasing and unreported income (cash exchange), each of which means cost of living is higher. According to this [0] cost of living is $400+ without rent, which is a bit steep but much closer to the actual cost. [0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Belgrade?seeThePricesForMobile=true https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Belgrade?seeThePric...