Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/34117495

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    • papertowels@mander.xyz
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      3 days 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.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      comfortably rich in [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

      • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 days 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. we live better than any king in the Bible. I know about the disparity that exists now. 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 celebrities. I hear Oxfam does good work if you don’t want to work locally. I’m down with eat the rich, just please don’t mistake yourself for poor if you’re not. if there wasn’t an ocean between the usa and Africa we would probably look at wealth differently. but all that said, of course the wealth graph shouldn’t look exponentially increasing, but for a biblical discussion I think you can ignore the top 5% as a historical anomaly ignoring the usury.

    • Linktank@lemmy.today
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      4 days 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.worksEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I mean it’s true. Nothing you ever do will matter.

        Edit: Outside of luigiing, but that probably can’t work twice. And it probably does matter much either. I think the point is that it’s not what you can accomplish, which being rich in your eyes seems to make you more responsible for (you could feed a starving kid for 53 cents a day, but likely don’t ), but how you conduct yourself.

        Anyway I do find it a little hypocritical that people here on lemmy complain about the rich when they have probably never missed a meal. Yeah, there are people that could feed most of the world, but I’m not addressing them.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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          3 days 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.

        • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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          3 days 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.worksEnglish
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            3 days ago

            my goal isn’t about ignoring the super rich. it was more about spending one day, Xmas day, thinking more about the poor.

            • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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              3 days ago

              Don’t use them as props in your arguments then and speak about them with compassion and how to raise them up then.