3 ms·
To be fair I have backpacked around the world and lived on 10$ a day on food and I could have lived on $5 if I didn't indulge. I even have maintained a high lev
by mowenz 9y ago
To be fair I have backpacked around the world and lived on 10$ a day on food and I could have lived on $5 if I didn't indulge. I even have maintained a high level of fitness and good muscle mass this way, so I was consuming well above survival rate of nutrition.
Additionally, I was travelling most of the time in developed countries, and not selecting cheapest options. And certainly was buying small amounts at retail prices.
So say 2$ a day as an aggressive estimate of what can keep an average person alive.
@ 2$ per person you can feed the world for 5 trillion a year. That's not even 7% of global GDP, and it's not even including home production.
So with 7% of global production we can feed every single person--as an upper level estimate. I would bet it's possible to get below 50c per person.
That's not a cheap price?
- ZenoArrow 9y agoHow did you afford to live on $5-$10 a day in developed countries? I'm guessing couch surfing for accommodation, walking or buses for transport, and cooking all your own food, but would be interested to hear how you did it. Also, which developed countries were the cheapest and most expensive to live in?
- mowenz 9y agoJust 10$ for food, not everything.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]