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It's often good to remind yourself of just how fortunate you really are... Those lines are so easily blurred.
by pistoriusp 16y ago
It's often good to remind yourself of just how fortunate you really are... Those lines are so easily blurred.
- GFischer 16y agoOr not... actually I - AM - fortunate, and I've never been poor, but I can identify with many of the points in the article (many are too US-centric as someone pointed out), and U$ 8 an hour sounds like a good deal even today for me. Of course, I live in Uruguay, South America, and mostly by choice (I was born here, but I've had my opportunities to emigrate). It's funny, but many of the "being poor" points, would not be considered "being poor" here in Uruguay (I should write a similar article about "being poor" from the Uruguay point of view - let's say it would be much worse in several parts, a bit better on the healthcare bit.
- marcofloriano 16y agoSame thing here, Brazil ... $8 an hour is like R$16 here, most part of population here get around R$10 per hour ... i guess the truth about being poor is ... "knowing the price of everything, but knowing the value of nothing"