Can you live on less than $1 a day?

Question

It's hard to believe than more than a billion people are this unfortunate.

Answer 1

i don't think it's possible to live on a dollar a day

Answer 2

Depends on where you live.

Answer 3

You can do this in India, but not US

Answer 4

If you change the figures in this joke to a dollar it becomes apparent that one can make money off money, even a dollar can be turned into far more money through scams such as this. Obviously, this does not address your point which is that there is something seriously wrong in a world which contains as much economic inequality such as ours.

A little old lady went into the headquarters of a large national bank one day, dragging a large bag behind her. She insisted that she must speak with the president of the bank to open a savings account because, "It's a lot of money!"

After much hemming and hawing, the bank staff finally ushered her into the president's office (the customer is always right!). The bank president then asked her how much she would like to deposit. She replied, "$165,000!" and dumped the cash out of her bag onto his desk.

The president was of course curious as to how she came by all this cash, so he asked her, "Ma'am, I'm surprised you're carrying so much cash around. Where did you get this money?"

The old lady replied, "I make bets."

The president then asked, "Bets? What kind of bets?"

The old woman said, "Well, for example, I'll bet you $25,000 that your balls are square."

"Ha!" laughed the president, "That's a stupid bet. You can never win that kind of bet!"

The old lady challenged, "So, would you like to take my bet?"

"Sure," said the president, "I'll bet $25,000 that my balls are not square!"

The little old lady then said, "Okay, but since there is a lot of money involved, may I bring my lawyer with me tomorrow at 10:00 AM as a witness?"

"Sure!" replied the confident president.

That night, the president got very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of a mirror checking his balls, turning from side to side, again and again. He thoroughly checked them out until he was sure that there was absolutely no way his balls were square and that he would win the bet. The next morning, at precisely 10:00 am, the little old lady appeared with her lawyer at the president's office. She introduced the lawyer to the president and repeated the bet: "$25,000 says the president's balls are square!" The president agreed with the bet again and the old lady asked him to drop his pants so they could all see. The president complied. The little old lady peered closely at his balls and then asked if she could feel them.

"Well, Okay," said the president, "$25,000 is a lot of money, so I guess you should be absolutely sure." Just then, he noticed that the lawyer was quietly banging his head against the wall. The president asked the old lady, "What the heck's the matter with your lawyer?"

"Nothing," she answered, "Except I bet him $100,000 that at 10:00AM today, I'd have the president of this bank's balls in my hand."

Answer 5

Please grow up. $1.00  in some countries could be 5 Lb. of rice or Wheat.

When i was young, Russians lived on $100/ year. Dollar price is ( mostly ) irrelevant.

Answer 6

Well, you can eat 1 cent candies lol

Answer 7

probably not. I'm very wasteful.but today i got a free soda.

Answer 8

NOT IN THE US LOL!!! MAYBE IN CHINA LOL

Answer 9

if the dollar goes down, and they spend 1.25 a day on food would they be better off?

Of course, but you would pay more for food and it would be unfortunate for you.

Answer 10

Depends on how self-sufficient you are. Believe it or not, there was a time when money didn't exist, and people fended for themselves!

Cost of living is a factor as well. Where I currently live, living on less than a dollar a day is pretty well impossible. I'd either starve to death, become a street performer, or go up to the government with my hand out.

Answer 11

2 Billion people live on less than 2 dollar a day and about 1 billion people live on less than 1 dollar a day. So yes, if consider that living.

Answer 12

No. It costs more than that just to eat. Who is going to pay the bills?

Answer 13

There rae people doing this (Discover PPP for yourself).

"To live on American salary,

in a British mansion,

with a Chinese cook and

a Japanese wife"

is the best life.

"To live on Chinese salary,

on a Japanese house,

with a British cook and

an American wife"

is not the best of life.