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Context: 25 Rs per day is $0.44 or 0.35 euros.

It's hard to imagine a way to survive on two quarters ($0.50) per day. The minimum price for pretty much any quantity of food or drink around here is about $0.79. That doesn't get you very far, and certainly not a whole day.

Suddenly I have a wonderful appreciation for how lucky we are to be born in a context that allowed us to learn to become programmers (and also to make money from it).



Check out http://rs100aday.com.

2 guys tried to actually live on those amounts and logged everything.

It's really a fascinating experiment and some of the hacks they had to come up with to manage calorific intake were quite stark.

On top of that they describe how they were managing hygiene, transportation and the other necessities of life.

And then they tried to live on rs 32 a day.




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