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Balinarestoday at 7:29 PM0 repliesview on HN

Interesting. I hope this catches on -- it's tough to visualize poverty in concrete terms, but assessing how long it takes a population to make a given unit of purchasing power in average is a clever idea. It's sobering to realize that it would take a friend across the sea over 100 hours to assemble the funds for a $100 bill that I wouldn't look at twice...

Although I wish this sparked a conversation on how we can do better instead of national dick measuring contests. Those don't help.