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by ivape 315 days ago
$3 USD can buy you basic things per day like food, but it won’t buy you that in America, for example. It’s not a fair metric at all.

$3 buys you various foods in various parts of the world, which would not put you in abject poverty.

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$3 a day makes you filthy poor in South America and probably everywhere besides India but there are still poorer people there.
Can’t look at it like that.

Does the person buy food and basics per day? Then don’t worry about what the dollar amount equates to. It’s a ridiculous metric when it comes to measuring abject poverty.