Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With the internet, you can live in another country and do your work on-line. I seriously considered moving to Honduras. It would be a very, very cheap place to live and I could still sell stock photos through the internet. There are quite a few jobs now that can be done on-line. My son works for a law firm doing research - all on-line. It could just as easily be done in any country with internet - which is most of them now. Tina On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote: > Right. If this was such a great solution, then thousands of young people > would be following their jobs overseas. EPL isn't the first to think of it. > OTOH, the globalization initiatives that encouraged this to happen benefit > wealthy industrialists and capitalists far more than their soon to be > unemployed, underpaid workers. The real marvel was that this > "globalization" was made to sound like a humanitarian, popular movement. > What bs! > > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Chris Crawford < > chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > > > The problem with that is that the reason you can live on so little on > some > > countries is that JOBS IN THOSE COUNTRIES PAY VERY LITTLE. Someone with a > > guaranteed American income (like a retiree with social security and a > > pension or some savings) can indeed live well in the third world. Us > young > > folks who have to work for a living can't do that. We'd be just as poor > in > > Elbonia as in the US, possibly worse off. > > > > > > -- > > Chris Crawford > > Fine Art Photography > > Fort Wayne, Indiana > > 260-437-8990 > > > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > > Become a fan on Facebook > > > > > > > > On 5/12/12 3:03 PM, "EPL" <manolito at videotron.ca> wrote: > > > > >If one feels poor living in a particular country and can find no way out > > >of > > >that, the wise thing to do is to move somewhere else where the cost of > > >living is lower and one's resources go further. > > > > > >In some countries, $10 a day buys a more than adequate lifestyle, all > > >inclusive. In much of the USA or Western Europe, one gets lunch. > > > > > >To remain in a wealthy society with the resources of a pauper seems > > >foolish, > > >unless one likes that sort of thing. > > > > > >One could live quite decently in a poor country for two or three years > for > > >the price of one Leica M Monochrom or a new 50mm Summicron-ASPH, or > > >whatever. Neither airfare nor batteries included. > > > > > >It is probably easier to move one's own location than to revamp a whole > > >socio-economic system to include everybody who wants in. > > > > > >Emanuel > > >(who was itching to change the subject line) > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Leica Users Group. > > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > -Lew S. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com