What would it be like to be in the poorest segment?
6.3 Yuan is maybe A$1.20, even with the poverty stricken life I led as a special pioneer, I don't think I've scratched that hard. Though there were days when I literally had no money left to buy food. (OF course, in the big-hearted view of the WTS, when you had no money you were supposed to go out an place some magazines ( a policy that started with colporteurs at the end of the nineteenth century), that's why they gave them to pioneers at such a big discount (No freeloaders in Yahweh's organisation, thank U!!).
Anyway here's how a student (who may also have some experience in living cheap) in China said he'd live on that:
At a 'dumpling party*,' I went to on Saturday night, I asked a middle-aged guy who'd grown up as an orphan in British controlled Singapore, if that was below his memory of a poverty line.
He reckoned that the student was eating better than he ate then (early 60s) under British rule. Trying to relate to it, he said he may have a steamed bread roll for breakfast (nothing else), no lunch and some boiled rice and some vegetables at night. Once in a while, they had a little meat or fish.
* A Chinese get together, where everyone works togetheer to make dumplings and then eats them
