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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by spwa4 on Saturday November 15, 2025 @06:25AM (#45936691)
I visited a few rural cities in the Central African republic ~15 years ago and this situation definitely exists (existed?) there. Your best bet is to try to get care in a monastery, but it's not like they have glasses or anything other than basic medicine.
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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by prmph on Saturday November 15, 2025 @07:29AM (#45936986)
The Central African Republic is among the poorest of countries in the world, so that situation might exist there.

But many (most?) 3rd world countries, like Ghana where I was born, are nowhere near this level of misery.

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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by inglor_cz on Saturday November 15, 2025 @08:01AM (#45937161)
The root of your disagreement lies in the fact that "The Third World" isn't really a useful abstraction anymore.

Plenty of former 3rd world countries are middle-income now. There is just no comparison between living in Thailand vs. South Sudan, even though there might be in the 1950s.

Time to toss the expression entirely, it doesn't really describe anything concrete anymore. The world has changed.

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