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I once read a book, Factfulness, by Hans Rosling, who claimed there are four stages of wealth.
There are the extremely poor people, who earn a dollar or less per day (per day sounds ridiculous, but I'm fairly certain it was per day and not hour).
With only a dollar extra, these people can escape extreme poverty and get basic supplies, like plumbing.
You won't believe how hard it is to go from one to two dollar, it could take generations.
I believe most of the world lives in that second category.
If not, they live in the third category, who make something like six dollar a day.
I can't remember what the fourth category earns, but they're of course us, the richt west: Europe and Northern America.
We are so rich all those beneath us look like they're extremely poor, while it's really three stages of wealth.
I'm not sure if $2 an hour is a fair salary over there, but plenty of people would take it without a second thought.
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Gates owns most of the farm land in America.
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Yeah,
Bill Gates is a very successful entrepreneur, he is out standing in his field. 
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Slacker007 wrote: Gates owns most of the farm land in America.
Nope. Not even close...
Fact Check-Bill Gates doesn’t own most U.S. farmland; BlackRock doesn’t own most houses | Reuters[^]
Quote: According to a January 2021 article by ‘The Land Report’, Gates owned 242,000 acres of farmland through two investment management firms - Cottonwood Ag Management and Cascade Investment (here).
The figure is far below the total area of U.S. farmland. A 2021 report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said there were 895,300,000 acres of farmland in the United States. (here). Using those figures, Gates would own about 0.027% of U.S. farmland.
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Yes, he does 
I see my memory is a bit off...
It wasn't one and two dollar, but two and eight.
And the third starts at 32.
I was right about it being per day though, and that most people are on level two
It's been about a year since I read it.
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Average Salary in Abu Dhabi 2022
Quote: A person working in Abu Dhabi typically earns around 21,000 AED per month. Salaries range from 4,680 AED (lowest average) to 96,400 AED (highest average, actual maximum salary is higher)
The exchange rate is 1 AED == 0.27 USD, so the monthly average salaries range between US$ 1250 to US$ 26,000. The lower salary translates to (assuming a 40-hour week) US$ 7.10 per hour.
Even by Abu Dhabi's standards, US$ 2.00 is slave wages.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I am fairly certain that most can argue that $7.10 per hour is still slave wages.
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By Western standards - yes. OTOH, as Sander points out, in some parts of the world this is considered a decent (and even a great) salary. You can't judge the entire world by the standards of the richest countries.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I thought we were still speaking in context to the UAE, the 12th richest country in the world, where $7 an hour is still slave wages.
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I sit corrected. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"Western standards".
We have 2 provinces in Canada where the minimum wage is still below $12.00 CAD; about $9.00 U.S.
Those "wage earners" then typically only get about 15-20 hours per week just so that they're not entitled to benefits.
They have to work 2 or 3 jobs to actually exist; if they can find them and manage it.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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That's the offer, the reality is that they will take your documents away and not pay even those.
I have a very dim view of the UAE, and I'm being very, very euphemistical.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Randor wrote: Is it even possible to live in the UAE on $2 per hour?!?
[Monty Python]
Luxury!
[/Monty Python]
Remember, some CEOs are being "paid" a buck a year...
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We're so screwed...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oh no - robots are on their way to take over the ministry of silly walks - will they leave anything for humanity?
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If I was that robot, I would be getting a bit miffed with the guy shoving me all the time... 😵
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What is the generic name / category / whatever of "...The_Cool_Piece_Of_Software..." in this scenario ?...
Here's what I want to do...
- Make a pic of a printed piece of paper with my phone
- Move that pic to my PC
- Use that file as input for The_Cool_Piece_Of_Software
- Wait five seconds
- Ta-Da
- I have the words from that piece of paper...
- In a text file (i.e., Ascii Text)
- In a Libre Office Document file (i.e., ODF format)
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OCR: Optical Character Recognition[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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C-P-User-3 wrote: I have the words from that piece of paper...
My phone, when it recognizes text on a pic, offers to OCR the pic for me. I've never tried it, but it might simply be the steps:
1. Take pic
2. let phone OCR it for you
3. open your email on your phone
4. paste and email yourself the text.
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Android ?
I have never seen that on mine.
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Then you need to install Google Lens.
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You might also look into OneNote's OCR capabilities. It should make your job really simple.
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