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To: napscoordinator
roughly 30% of China’s population lives off of $2 per year.

I was going to comment on that one too... I know stuff is cheaper in other Countries -- but no way. That is less than a penny a day. They must've dropped at least two decimal places...

3 posted on 01/14/2013 11:10:41 AM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

Oh yeah. I agree 100 percent with you...definitely missing decimal places.


6 posted on 01/14/2013 11:19:53 AM PST by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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To: El Cid
Yeah, that doesn't sound right to me either.

When I was in college several years ago, the first global online game took off. I remember chatting with some players in China that were paid $1 a day to play the game for 12 hours. They would farm game gold to sell to American kids on Ebay. There were four Chinese men living in a small room with a bunk-bed. They would hot bunk. Two guys would sleep while 2 guys would farm gold and the bed was never empty.

All the pretend game gold was transferred to a "boss" who would do the Ebay listings and pay the workers. I don't know how many farmers they had total but it was lots. They were jerks in the game but to them this was a high stakes job with a real paycheck on the line. Talk about sad! Still that would be a couple hundred dollars a year, not just 2!

9 posted on 01/14/2013 11:31:38 AM PST by Casie (Chuck Norris 2016)
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