Poverty, Prosperity, and Other Illusions Blinding You to Freedom

Less than half of the world makes more than two dollars a day, and many countries have a GDP per capita of less than a thousand dollars a year of income per person. If you had passive income sources, like royalties, then if you could earn two thousand dollars a year, or more, then you could retire like royalty to many tropical island paradises, boats, beaches, forest cabin retreats, motor homes, villages, deserts, and other vacationing paradises. Furthermore, in many countries, the prisons have videogames, your own private room that you get the key to, a private shower, no armed guards, a max sentence of no more than about two decades even for murder, bicycles, swimming, steaks, gourmet foods, sports, hip hop music studios, and non-stop fun!

A lot of Americans are surprised to learn that many European countries, and other parts of the world, have free massages, free trips to spas, several months of paid vacation time, four day work weeks, an average income per person that is almost double what it is in the USA, free healthcare, free housing, free food, and free college. You can’t just look at the GDP per capita of a country, since this can be deceiving, if you don’t also look at the benefits that other countries have to offer, while also looking at the cost of living in these countries. Otherwise, it would not be possible for billions of people on Earth to live on less than two dollars per day if the cost of living in these countries was not different from what it is in the USA....