&gt; I&#x27;ve spent lots of time in India, surrounded by people earning far less than what American hipsters call a &quot;living wage&quot;. Yet these folks weren&#x27;t dead!<p>Bit of a survivor bias here, don&#x27;t you think? Of course you haven&#x27;t met anyone that died.<p>(Dying is not the only problem, of course - one could live cheaply in a dangerous neighborhood and without heating on the winter and so on.)<p>I&#x27;m interested in the links you posted, however - I&#x27;ll have to read through them.