If you read about China, you may have heard that hundreds of millions live below the poverty level. After all, many peasant farmers in rural China do not earn much money.
Are they poor? Are they starving? Are they homeless?
How do we measure poverty in an industrialized, electronic, virtual Internet nation? The answer is that poverty is measured by the lack of money and/or credit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h235t89WpYU
In the above video, the narrator says that the way people lived in America before the Industrial Revolution was different from the way we live today. Nine out of ten people in rural areas.
There was a large, mostly poor lower class, a small rich upper class and not much of a middle class.
Rural people raised most of their food on small farms. They didn’t have to leave home each day to work at a job in a town or city. There were families and small village communities that depended on each other in a collective lifestyle.
Back then, there were no electric lights, no movies, no telephones, no recorded music and no cars (and not much pollution).
Ordinary people used their hands to make most of the things they needed.
The world was quiet because there were no noisy machines. The pace of life was slower.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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