allow them to freely choose their lifestyle.
Abject poverty removes freedom to choose. It's not a choice of not buying
the more expensive car or eating at home. It's a choice of eating or dying,
and eating means either doing something illegal or taking whatever crap
offer comes up that doesn't really allow you to improve your situation other
than being able to eat and live another day to make just enough money to
eat. Repeat.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: RE: More Breaking News
> > Say you're applying for a job. You have a family of 5 and
> > you give the minimum figure that your family can subsist on.
> >
> > Someone else comes along, and since their culture encourages
> > whole family units, up to 20 people, to live together and
> > share expenses they can undercut you by half of your figure.
> >
> > Do you think this is a good thing?
> >
>
> Sure. Take another example. Person A likes to eat out every night and buy
> expensive cars. Person B is more frugal. Therefore he can afford to work
for
> less.
>
> -Ray
>
>
>
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