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>Why not even move into a 3th world country and live like a king with your first world salary?

And that's a bad thing why exactly?




I don't know that it is, but there is a lot of anguish over gentrification in areas in the US which seems to me to be exactly this, just on a smaller scale. The assumption that "rich" moving into "poor areas" lifts all boats in the area is not necessarily true.


Well, it would not be a bad thing per se. But if everyone would start doing that, costs will rise again and in the end, situation (high living cost, rents, etc.) will be the same. It is just not sustainable. You may also think, that people in 3rd world countries do not have good access to education, so basically you take advantage of them, only because you were born in a first world country and they were not... Of course, you could be a really generous king and even help the people there to have better access to education. That would be sustainable.


> You may also think, that people in 3rd world countries do not have good access to education, so basically you take advantage of them, only because you were born in a first world country and they were not

How are people born in developed countries not already doing this via importing from countries with little or no labor laws and environmental protections?

If anything, an educated person going to an undeveloped place and sharing their resources that would have gone to an already developed place is a huge benefit for the undeveloped place.


It seems like it would help out low cost areas and the poor and all in all help equalize the world. With proper regulations, taxes, that is.




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