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Originally Posted by Robbie
You are wrong on that. Hell, you even used India as an example.
So there is your first country to prove that wrong.
In the United States we have the majority of people living very comfortably in the "middle" of your two extremes.
You need to test your "no other country in this world" theory. Go down to Mexico. Go to Jamaica. Go to Peru. I've spent a bit of time at those three countries. And they totally prove your statement wrong.
I've never been to Asia...but from what I have seen and read, the nations there also prove that there are LOTS of countries with no middle class at all.
I think your statement is way over-exaggerating things and totally ignoring the FACT that a person in the U.S.A. who lives at "poverty level" would be considered "rich" in many nations.
In most places in the world a person in "poverty" doesn't own a car, a cellphone, and have cable t.v. in their apartment.
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Agreed I lived in Sao Paulo and it was from our very expensive corporate paid high rise apartment with 24/7 security and 10 foot walls around the compound, through the favela, which is slum in a way you don't experience in the US, to the country club by the lake in less than 30 minutes.