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I have grown up in a typical middle-class household where one is rightly nurtured into not being extravagant. I was taught to value money (which I thoroughly ap
by hansy 13y ago
I have grown up in a typical middle-class household where one is rightly nurtured into not being extravagant. I was taught to value money (which I thoroughly appreciate). Even though, in my childhood, I always got whatever I wanted, the truth is that I never wanted big, expensive toys.
The author did not grow up in poverty.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoRead the link I provided. India middle class < America poverty.
- gress 13y agoThat's laughable. It may be true purely from a global economic perspective where life is measured in dollars, but in quality of life and social terms it's absolutely false. India's middle class can typically own property and afford servants, and live a life that is far more pleasant than is available to those in poverty in the US.
- dharmach 13y agoPoverty is not about who possesses more or less. It has more to do with how much you feel deprived, irrespective of how much you possess.