Posted on 04/24/2013 11:39:19 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Newly-anointed World’s Most Beautiful Woman Gwyneth Paltrow has famously dismissed the plebs who criticize her extravagant lifestyle. “F— the haters!” she told Elle UK in 2009. “I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.”
But apparently, the same isn’t true for Paltrow’s old flame Ben Affleck. The Oscar-winning director recently signed on to participate in the Global Poverty Project’s Live Below the Line, a campaign that challenges average (and above-average) people to live on just $1.50 a day for five days.
The initiative is meant to simulate what it’s like for the 1.4 billion people worldwide who live in extreme poverty. Getting by on that pittance every day would actually mean spending just $547.5 per year — which makes $25,000 look like a pretty princely sum.
Have to be a non-smoker
I’m guessing they won’t be paying ‘fair trade’ prices for any of their consumables.
$1.50 a day in Mexico, India, Czech Republic, or NYC?
There is a difference elsewhere what a dollar will buy you.
thats what food stamps are for
His gruel will be served to him by servants.
What a stunt . . .
does anyone believe a word a celebutard says?
It’s going to be a high carb diet.
I would do the same...Knowing I have millions in the bank and it is only for a publicity stunt. With luck this lark will bring me more millions.My new venture would have been well publicised and sponsored. What a Prat.
Day 2-5: Free range long pork.
More seriously, how much of the $1.50/day amount is from a large number of people living on subsistence agriculture where they grow enough to feed their families but have little left for trading (or boosting the GDP). Thus Affleck should be working in the field from dawn to dusk to get his handful of rice.
Does the buck fifty a day include rent?
About as credible as the ‘one sheet of toilet paper’ foolishness. Sadly, the fools actually think people believe them.
Ben Affleck is one of the better HollyWeird liberals. He lives a decent upstanding family life. He lives conservative and votes Obama/liberal
“I would do the same...Knowing I have millions in the bank and it is only for a publicity stunt.”
Exactly . . . Ben a-fleck had to lose a few pounds anyhow
I remember back in the 80s, when I was in school in Washington DC, that Martin Sheen spent one winter night sleeping in a Washington Metro station to highlight the plight of the homeless. He had an expensive parka and cold weather sleeping bag. I am sure he wasn't remotely cold the entire night. Some of my friends and I stood around for a while yelling "hypocrite" and making other comments but he didn't notice us.
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