[gdy]

"And for $13.75 an hour, it definitely isn't worth it."

A billion of people around the world would be happy to work with that hourly rate.

[dzmien]

Despite the fact that I might not be a rich man in this country, I am a very rich man in this world. I feel quite lucky and grateful to have been born in the USA. But to be fair, that was not a very good wage for where I live.

[badrequest]

"accept your scraps, peasant, there's folks with no plausible way of ever enjoying them who would"

[pkaye]

Not at the US cost of living. Nor would those billions of people be paid a that rate if their cost of living is lower than the US.

[georgespencer]

I think it's quite likely, but unknowable, that folks would accept the income:cost of living ratio of the US if it came with the associated sociological benefits. I think you're underestimating how disproportionately impoverished many people around the world are.

[geodel]

Well people here keep ranting about 1 percenters without ever realizing that >$100K earners are among one percenters in the world.

[mamon]

Actually, the threshold to be in top 1% income bracket worldwide is $32,400

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05061...

[zjaffee]

This number is both old and in nominal terms. A person making 50k USD in China is likely richer than a person in the US making 100k USD in the US.

http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/771271476908686029/Segal.pdf suggests that the number to be in the global 1% is around $50,000 PPP per person in a given household.

[mensetmanusman]

Except that the Chinese person is a prisoner in their own country, and the American could move to China to have a higher quality of life outside of the polluted cities.

[georgespencer]

You're right that a few people do, although I think most people realise how deeply fortunate we all are to have won to at least some extent a genetic and [entirely separate] geographic lottery.

[salty_biscuits]

All in countries with a lower cost of living.

[digitalsushi]

I upvoted you because at first I decided you were a king writing this and telling us to feel more lucky and I felt angry, but then I pretended you were the poorest laborer writing this and telling us to feel more lucky, and I agreed.

[gdy]

That is the first time someone has thought about me as a king. Even metaphorically and for a brief moment :)

[megaremote]

Sure, if they could stay where they are. $13.75 buys a lot more in Bangalore than it does in the US.

[dahart]

Would you?

[gdy]

No, but I am not suffering from hunger, lack of clean drinking water, lack of basic medical help or violence.

If that were the case, I would be happy to do anything, including relocating to the US and working as an Amazon's robot.

[geodel]

To add further there will be billion who would do as a daily rate.

[gdy]

I was thinking about people moving to the US and working there at an Amazon warehouse.

If we talk about working for that rate in their native country, I think it can be up to 5 billion. And a billion more will take the job without being too happy.