It’s important to remember that a lot of this data is biased. It doesn’t consider the subsistence farmers and people who obtain resources without the market. Nor does it take into account cost of living.
If you think about it, people who live “on less than a dollar per day” literally wouldn’t be able to live if they faced the same cost of living as people in western societies.
I’m not saying that these people are as rich as westerners (they aren’t), but the gap is exaggerated by the liberal worldview.
And in the other way, especially accounting for costs of living. Poland, Lithuania and Estonia in the same cathegory as Switzerland or Luxembourg is like the joke about man and dog having averagely three legs.
It’s important to remember that a lot of this data is biased. It doesn’t consider the subsistence farmers and people who obtain resources without the market. Nor does it take into account cost of living.
If you think about it, people who live “on less than a dollar per day” literally wouldn’t be able to live if they faced the same cost of living as people in western societies.
I’m not saying that these people are as rich as westerners (they aren’t), but the gap is exaggerated by the liberal worldview.
And in the other way, especially accounting for costs of living. Poland, Lithuania and Estonia in the same cathegory as Switzerland or Luxembourg is like the joke about man and dog having averagely three legs.