comfortably rich in a [pick whatever capital city you want] is a grain of sand compared to being a billionaire though, that is the level of disparity we are talking about
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Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoIf you’re on lemmy, you’re probably rich. Like worldwide rich.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I understand that. the Bible makes no such exceptions and probably couldn’t imagine what we have now. we should help who we can. I know about the disparity. my only point is that everyone here on lemmy is likely above the world median but acts like they are paupers because they compare themselves to elon musk. I hear Oxfam does good work.
papertowels@mander.xyz 1 month ago
The discrepancy you’re pointing out across different countries is at most 18x, according to your article.
Let’s ignore, for a second, that “richness” needs to be considered in the context of COL. Yes, 1% of someone salary could make an impact in Tajikistan. But the cost of a meal for that potential donor could also bankrupt someone in Tajikistan. But let’s ignore that for now.
18x an average persons salary is a fart in the wind when it comes to the rich. Take a look.
Linktank@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Oh fuck off. This is the same mentality of pushing the climate crisis off onto everybody instead of the few people causing it.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No it’s not. Some dude is quoting the Bible. So no basis in reality. The quote generally talks about giving all your stuff to the poor and being a boon to humanity instead of keeping things for yourself, but I point out that people here have more than most in this world and I’m wrong?
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I quoted the Bible because the image in the OP is Luigi in the style of a saint. I’m not religious.
If I said “the Sun is hot” and you said “if you live on Earth you experience temperatures hotter than most of the universe” you also wouldn’t be wrong. You’d be Neil deGrasse Tyson. Most of the universe is -270°C. Earth is 15°C. The sun is 1,000,000°C. No matter how you look at it, the Sun is hot. The Earth is only hot if you purposefully compare it to cold things.
1/3 of the world make $2 a day. I made about $137 a day. Thompson made $27,945 a day. I am $135/d away from the poorest and $27,808/d away from Thompson. I’m not sure what the goal is of saying I am rich compared to the poor when I am 205x closer to being the world’s poorest than I am to being a multi-millionare, let alone one of the approx. 2,700 billionaires in the world.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
my goal isn’t about ignoring the super rich. it was more about spending one day, Xmas day, thinking more about the poor.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I mean it’s true. Nothing you ever do will matter.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 month ago
To give you some context on at least one downvote.
I have been homeless like proper homeless sleeping on a metal chair with a backpack outside my college for weeks using the gym to shower and working 3 jobs to afford the basic idea of the American dream of going to college and nothing else. I spent most of my childhood hungry as my incubator spent all money on her vices.
I ended up fleeing the country via a work program that basically made me an indentured servant for a few years while I tried to get my life together in a way where I didn’t want it to end anymore.
You speak for a lot of people you don’t know when you say sweeping statements about the audience to who you are talking to.
But also with that said I bet most of the down votes are still people who have not lived a life nearly that rough and think that renting is an equal level of poor and don’t want to hear it.