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Date ; Thursday, December 2, 2010
Time ; 1:19 AM
Title ; two

Hello!

So... 6 years have gone by. Nah, I'm not gonna say its very fast, because i dont feel so.
Nonetheless, these years have been great. :)

I suddenly realise there will be not much to blog about? No more school stuff to talk about D:

In that case I shall talk about something else.
I was thinking recently about inequality in this world. I mean, in GP, Geog and Econs, we will talk about this inequality. Most likely you would know that there is like 1 billion people living in extreme poverty, while wealth is concentrated among a small group of people, etc

This extreme poverty is defined as living with less than 1USD a day. But, the problem is this, this definition is very very very subjective, which means to say, it is related to the real value of the dollar, not just the nominal value of 1USD. Yea, you get my point.

Another thing is that majority of the people in the world is living with far more than 1USD a day, therefore we have this perception that living under 1USD a day is in extreme poverty. (yes, of course i agree that they can use the fact that these people are malnourished, have low life expectancy,etc to show that living under 1USD a day is very terrible.)

What I'm trying to say is that, if we are able to help these people. Let them get out of extreme poverty. Lets say, now the poorest people in the world are living with 5USD a day. It doesn't seem so bad now, but when we are in that situation, my guess would be that we will raise the bar of extreme poverty. And now these people living under 5USD will be extreme poverty. Why? because majority of the people is living far above 5USD a day. Everything is relative. And this relativity is sort of embossed into our minds. So we feel what we feel only because we know the norm.

Think about it, if you are one of the people who are living somewhere in subsaharan africa and have no idea about the existence of rest of the world, would you feel that you are in extreme poverty?

Haha, okay i am done with my nonsense.

Bye.
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