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> struggle to wrap our minds around [..] remittances You have family you care about back in your home country, so you send them money from your better-paid for

• alwa 10mo ago
  Nothing at all, unless you’re someone who doesn’t have family in a different country. In which case it may not have occurred to you that it’s even a thing, with its own rules and hazards and ways things are done. Even if you’re such a person in the professional class, who sends money back to their family via formal means, you might not be sensitive to the means informally-employed people use to send money (or value) back to their families. Any more than it occurs to you to go to a payday lender and pay $5 to get $50 today against your $250 paycheck next week, in order to make rent…