$3 USD can buy you basic things per day like food, but it won’t buy you that in America, for example. It’s not a fair metric at all.

$3 buys you various foods in various parts of the world, which would not put you in abject poverty.

$3 a day makes you filthy poor in South America and probably everywhere besides India but there are still poorer people there.

	▲	ivape 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Can’t look at it like that. Does the person buy food and basics per day? Then don’t worry about what the dollar amount equates to. It’s a ridiculous metric when it comes to measuring abject poverty.