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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by matsemann on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:37AM (#35650813)
In much of the world, owning a car at all puts you above "poor people". While owning a car is sadly needed in some parts of the world to get to work or even the stores (US..), it's a massive financial burden for most people. If you care for poor people, thinking about how people can go about their daily lives without spending thousands of dollars each year on owning a car would be the way to go.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by asdfman123 on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:41AM (#35650843)
If a comment on hackernews seems like it’s only written about the US, then it probably is.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by bluGill on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:33AM (#35653499)
If you can afford a car you are not poor. In the US (and Europe) there are almost no poor people. What we call poor are still middle class by world standards.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by adrianmonk on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:38AM (#35655400)
This is getting away from the relevant definition of poor. The person above was talking about how people will vote, so what matters here is whether they're poor relative to other voters within their own country.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by nicoburns on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:25PM (#35657111)
> If you can afford a car you are not poor

I'm not sure I agree with this. In many parts of the US or Europe, you could easily be in a position where you can afford a car (and need one for work), but cannot afford housing. It's true that you might well still be well off by world standards (a car roof is still a roof), but I think I'd require "food, clean water, clothing and reliable shelter" to be a bare minimum for "not poor".

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