>In fact, it takes only $300 (real 2000 USD) /year to survive, and historically (>300 years ago) most humans were earning this much for millenia. I get the poi

>In fact, it takes only $300 (real 2000 USD) /year to survive, and historically (>300 years ago) most humans were earning this much for millenia. I get the point you're trying to make, but this isn't accurate. It takes more than $300 or $2000 to survive now. You can't just adjust historical values for inflation and claim they apply today when the historical values were derived from a system that didn't function like today's.