Of course, there will always be someone who has it way worse or lives inside an underdeveloped region but this isn't some kind of competition.
To observe the lifelong negative effects of growing up poor one doesn't have to grow up in absolute squalor.
Living in a large German city, I also never owned a car and didn't feel poor for the fact.
>Living in a large German city, I also never owned a car and didn't feel poor for the fact.
Lacking a car doesn't make one poor, and if you're growing up in one of Germany's largest cities (where one does not need a car to survive), you're already in an incredibly fortunate position in terms of lottery of birth compared to the rest of the people on the planet.
Well sure. Poor depends on where you are too. Poor in an American city can still be rich compared to poor in a very poor country. I don’t think that negates the point though.
i.e. at a conference of neurosurgeons perhaps the vast majority of the HN userbase, including perhaps everyone commenting here, would be considered ‘lazy’ and ‘stupid’.
If it’s fine to refer to people in this manner, depending on their physical location, then I think it would have some pretty big implications.
Living in a large German city, I also never owned a car and didn't feel poor for the fact.