OK, I'll let you get away with have more than 600 a month income because
you can see that there are people poorer than you. I think in your area
of the world there is even less help available to these people than
there is here in the US. For our European and other friends who have to
pay the taxes for socialized medicine, just think what it would be like
to suddenly have to pay more than your entire life savings for a medical
emergency. I think people where Albano is, just die in a case like
that.
The US is by far not the worst place to live. In many undeveloped
nations people don't even have the option to live. All they get is the
option to die.
Oh, and by the way, there are people here in the US who can not afford
to eat at McDonalds either.
--Tom
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> aimcompute wrote:
> >
> > If you consider McDonald's a meal. :-)
>
> Anyone truly in the third world would consider a McDonald's meal
> far more than would be needed for a single person. They's consider
> $3.50 enough to provide for more than one meal, too.
>
> Hi, I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. If you go to a Mc's after 12 pm, you will
> see people outside waiting for the employees to put the trash in the street.
> Then, they will open the bags and eat half-eated burgers, pieces of potatoes,
> and everything eatable. You will see entire families doing it. For that reason I
> hate when the employees (I know it's due to the bosses) drop the burgers if they
> are cold, or if they went to the floor. I think they could put them apart and
> give them to this people, saving them the human degradation to have to search in
> the trash for eat something.
> Maybe this is incredible to most first world buddies (the majority on this
> list), but it's something I have to see everyday here. And I live in the more
> expensive zone of the city. Doing night photo here is a real adventure.
> The situation here is gettting worse and worse, with unemployment raising
> incredible levels. Here, you can be thankfull earning 400 bucks a month. A lot
> of families "live" with less than 100 a month. I gain 720 being 22 years old and
> believe me I can enjoy photography because I live with my parents and don't have
> a lot of personal outcomes. For the vast majority on this country, a 50 bucks
> point-n-shoot camera is an unbelievable luxury, don't to talk about the 10 bucks
> needed to develop and print a roll of 36 pics.
> Just a bit of sad reality to share
>
> Albano
>
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