My disabled friend has these things and she is definitely poor. She pays for her own cell bill, but we bought her the TV and computer and pay for her cable bill. When someone is mostly house-bound due to a disability, having a couple "luxury" items is a necessity, and it doesn't make her not poor! That's extremely judgmental to look at someone's meager stuff and claim they can't be poor.
She also earns a few extra dollars because she has a computer and is extremely intelligent, has a degree in science and can find a few things she can do at home. To say a computer is a luxury item is also living in 1990... it's pretty much a necessity these days.
That's the point of my post... things that were luxuries are now commonplace. They don't get that in Africa...
What is poor in relation to the rest of the world?
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