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by yummyfajitas 4677 days ago
False. A person with less than $5k in earnings has consumption of nearly $23k/year.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

Also, the threshold for "find people who can eat enough" is far below $25k (proof: Mexicans eat enough with a GDP/capita of $16k, and Mexico is a fairly rich nation).