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Total Debt as a Proportion of GDP
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How damning, I'm quite poor, relatively speaking.
I don't mean it to be.
I look at poverty on a global not local level: if you live in a house you haven't built yourself from what you can scrounge and eat other than rice with lentils and spices every day then you're already in the top 80% or so.
If you can afford secondary education for your son that probably puts you in the top 50%, affording secondary education for daughters puts you in the top 40% at a guess (not morally correct but accurate).
The treatment I've had is probably available to the top world 10% at most. I'd doubt if all of my continuing treatment is available on the NHS for example which takes out a chunk of the richest people with ok healthcare.0 -
I don't mean it to be.
I look at poverty on a global not local level: if you live in a house you haven't built yourself from what you can scrounge and eat other than rice with lentils and spices every day then you're already in the top 80% or so.
If you can afford secondary education for your son that probably puts you in the top 50%, affording secondary education for daughters puts you in the top 40% at a guess (not morally correct but accurate).
The treatment I've had is probably available to the top world 10% at most. I'd doubt if all of my continuing treatment is available on the NHS for example which takes out a chunk of the richest people with ok healthcare.
I'm aware of that in global terms, and make specific note of the apparent prioritising of money to educate sons rather than daughters (hideous). However, in the frame of the UK, if being clevererer equates to being richerer then I have to come to terms with being sub average
If you think of it as 'us' verses 'them', then it's probably your side that are the villains.0
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