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Kemonophonic said:
@Daleport996: @W0LFB3AT5: I am truly grateful that I live somewhere where the water is safe to drink straight from the tap.

Well, I'm truly grateful that I'm privileged to have these amenities at all. Like, I'm definitely not in the top 1%, more like the top 20% or something of families who can afford basic needs without difficulty and then some. That number is growing bigger as the time goes.

Like, I have a laptop, I can communicate in English, I have 24/7 access to the internet, even my family has Netflix.

I know it's nothing to brag about, but most of my neighbors back home don't have a personal computer. Most of them don't even have a car.
(Though I guess it's more of a necessity thing, like smartphones and motorcycles are way more worthwhile for them, which they do have.)

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@Daleport996: Well, I think I'm underselling my country too much. I just looked it up and apparently 44% of people are lower-middle class now (~Rp1.200.000 monthly spending per person or $78.97. Really? I spend much less than that every month!)

Source (in Indonesian).

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