Comments by "PeterC" (@peterc4082) on "" video.

By global standards you are filthy rich. Don't compare yourself to the richest 1% of the world, compare yourself to the world as a whole. If you have healthcare, retirement money, a roof over your head, a wam place in winter, a way to travel, heck you can post on the internet and even can go on the occasional holiday, you are VERY wealthy. You are not the Hollywood jet set, sure, and maybe you don't drive the latest AMG Mercedes G-Wagon, but you are very wealthy by world standards where people live on $1 per day. 100s of millions of people globally go hungry every day.
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@mikefraser4513 Britain is No 1. Ubermenschen.
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@Worlds_Worst_Guitarist Nobody is needing to survive on $1 per day in Germany. Germany has a great social welfare system. You get a good old age pension, free healthcare, free social care (eg old age home, home based care), they take the pensioners on vacations to resorts, you get food allowance, heating allowance, transportation etc. That's way, way more than $1 per day. I don't know why this is so hard for people. My point was that 1 billion people need to survive on less than $1 per day. You can imagine that they don't enjoy a social welfare system at all. In comparison the average German pensioner is not doing so badly. They're maybe doing worse than during Germany's golden age in the 80s-2000s, but Germany or the Holy Roman Empire was not the wealthiest of regions, most people in its history were poor. Germany is still a very wealthy country with one of the best social benefits in the EU and the EU itself is a very wealthy group when compared to the world as a whole. Hence I said, maybe he doesn't have a G Wagon Merc, but so what. He gets free public transport, as pensioners get in Germany. If you want to compare to the world at large and you're a stickler for details, you should look at his occupation and compare to retirees in other countries with similar occupations. Germany will also outperform there too.
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@Wolf-ln1ml If you do a Google search for "Surviving on Pennies: We Must Help the World's Most Deprived" there's a link to the United Nations, The World's Most Deprived: Characteristics and Causes of Extreme Poverty and Hunger, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 1 billion people live on $1 or less per day. You cited a global annual average income but the average does not tell you that 1 billion live on $1 per day or 365 USD a year. Thanks.
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@vaska1999 It's not a standard, but living on $1 or less per day is what a billion people do. Note that there are more people living on the spectrum between that extreme and what our interlocutor lives on. And vaska, these are human beings too, if they can survive, we should empathise and at least feel grateful that we're not there nor living on $5 per day. Have a good day.
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@vaska1999 According to the United Nations International Food Policy Research Institute a billion people live on $1 or less per day. Take it up with the United Nations. We can all cite figures. You're just disputing mine because you're upset someone is arguing against you. Of course it's irrelevant that there are billions of people in dire poverty except these are people too, hence the poster here being an EQUAL human being to them can be compared to them. This has nothing to do with Germany. Unless you wish to claim Germans are somehow above that or are expected to be better of by default. You may wish to rethink that line of thinking.
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@Worlds_Worst_Guitarist If you were unemployed you would receive free healthcare in Germany. You're charged healthcare insurance fee because you can afford it. Germany has a progressive tax system. Yes of course you don't have to survive on $1 per day but the people who live on $1 per day elsewhere, live in total misery compared to what a German lives in. Life expectancy reflects that. It's not that someone in Pakistan or Somalia has what you have but has only $1 per day to pay for it and has no money left, it's that they can only dream about 90% of the things you enjoy and you enjoy high standards.
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@Worlds_Worst_Guitarist Note that this guy spoke of Los Angeles, which is California, which is like Monte Carlo or St Tropez (almost) for Europe.
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@Worlds_Worst_Guitarist NGos don't provide good level of health or social care. At best it's haphazard and limited. They're NGOs. They're smaller than entire national governments. Well you are paying, but for paying, you are enjoying so much, what price can you put on decent healthcare? I didn't say the original poster was RICH in Germany. I said he's doesn't own an AMG G Wagon Merc. But he's comparatively rich when it comes to the world as a whole. That's what I said. Why do you create a strawman? Also remember, he compared himself to living in Los Angeles, eg Beverly Hills. California is an expensive and well off place with high standard of living, even for the United States.Also we don't know what occupation he had nor you have. But all in all you are rich if you can afford this very high standard health care and social services which cost way more than 600 Euro per month. If you need surgery and chemotherapy and MRI imaging, such could cost a million dollars in the US or 200K Euro or more, buy you only pay 600 Euro per month.
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@HeroinYoda Regardless, globally, he's filthy rich. Sure if you compare yourself to the elites, you are poor. You're telling me not to be that guy, while being that guy. Have a good day.
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@val-schaeffer1117 Because all people are Homo sapiens, that's why. He should be happy with what he has. And Germany is being outcompeted by the Asians anyway. Germans want their long vacations, and social benefits, that has to come from something. Just wait till Germany is forced to increase military spending although much of that will go to domestic Rhinemetal.
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@vaska1999 These figures are fine given the UN is using them. You're not an authority to judge. Secondly all humans are the same. Let's not go to where the Austrian painter went.
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@Worlds_Worst_Guitarist Regardless, 600 Euro is very affordable and it is based on what you have as a pension. I don't know what Germany does with people who have absolutely NOTHING, are they left to die, if they become ill or maybe very few such people exist.
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@ablamill8357 Was tried already about a 100 years ago. Did not work out well.
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