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A full grown cow in the west can sell for $500 to $2000 depending on weight and breed. The main input for a cow is pasture, which is plentiful in rural Kenya.
by narrator 16y ago
A full grown cow in the west can sell for $500 to $2000 depending on weight and breed. The main input for a cow is pasture, which is plentiful in rural Kenya. More importantly $80 for a solar panel is a lot cheaper, over time, than the ride into town and back. Since this all makes practical economic sense, it didn't require an aid agency to come their and tell them to do it all.
- sliverstorm 16y agoMy thought is mainly I always hear they don't have two nickels to rub together, and this disproves that.
- joe_the_user 16y agoGiven that they survive, many people in third world countries have enough resources to survive and occasionally a few left over. They are often portrayed as "poor as beyond poor" because many economies are much less money-based than in the West. Not to say that they're wealthy but if you combine food being less expensive with a lot of subsistence agriculture, a person can have a very low income without being utterly miserable. IE, "Surviving on pennies a day" is a lot easier in Kenya than San Francisco.
- erikpukinskis 16y agoYou really thought that no one in Africa had any money at all? You think it's just a bunch of dark skinned people squatting in the mud? Jesus.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI didn't say that. "doesn't have two nickels to rub together" is an idiom.
- erikpukinskis 16y agoIt means "to not have any money", right?