Don’t forget that really only a small part of the global population lives in the west / “wealthy” countries. Our presumably western perspective is just biased even if we don’t like to think so. And then, of those few, a bunch are so much more rich than the others that they skew the average. And half of the people living in those wealthy countries have considerably less than that skewed average.
If you think about it, it helps understanding how absolutely dirt poor literal billions of people really are on the global scale. Even the poors in rich countries don’t have it much better.
Don’t forget that really only a small part of the global population lives in the west / “wealthy” countries. Our presumably western perspective is just biased even if we don’t like to think so. And then, of those few, a bunch are so much more rich than the others that they skew the average. And half of the people living in those wealthy countries have considerably less than that skewed average.
If you think about it, it helps understanding how absolutely dirt poor literal billions of people really are on the global scale. Even the poors in rich countries don’t have it much better.
Exactly, im south american, and in the 3% of earners here (brute), but still not part of that 10%…