> And saving a few bucks won't change your living standard. People are ordering for fun.
Great way to demonstrate first world myopia.
A large portion of the people in India live on no more than a few bucks per day. To them, this can be the difference between being well-fed and going hungry. Which is the biggest possible change in living standard.
Yeah right ! You completely missed the context. Picked one sentence out of the whole argument and didn't realize who it's being targeted at.
The ones who are living on a few bucks a day aren't the ones logging on to groupon at 1pm to compete for those onion prices for the 10 minutes that it lasted. Neither do they have broadband, credit cards, netbanking. Neither are they the target consumer for groupon.
As for well fed, One Kg of onion is about 300 calories... its not like sucking down olive oil or even beef. So if you're starving to death it'll delay death by only a couple hours at most.
As for going hungry one Kg even eaten raw is less bulk than you'd think.
Great way to demonstrate first world myopia.
A large portion of the people in India live on no more than a few bucks per day. To them, this can be the difference between being well-fed and going hungry. Which is the biggest possible change in living standard.