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Its the 80 / 20 system all over asia. Twenty percent of the population hold eighty percent of the wealth,eighty percent of the population share the other twenty percent.

After travelling through asia, having seen what i've seen,even the dirt seems clean in OZ!!!

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Well I was in Ubon once, we went to a disco on a Wednesday and the whole place was loaded with thai people drinking whiskey. I thought, wtf, are they all drinking sponsor money, or what?

 

I'm sure a lot of bg's or even their family would be good middle class, at least if they could handle money. Sure some people are poor, cause their just unlucky, or born in the wrong area. But if you see the funds that come into pattaya and via via to Isaan, they could become middle class. It's only the carpe diem that makes that they stay what they are, poor.

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Well I was in Ubon once, we went to a disco on a Wednesday and the whole place was loaded with thai people drinking whiskey. I thought, wtf, are they all drinking sponsor money, or what?

 

I'm sure a lot of bg's or even their family would be good middle class, at least if they could handle money. Sure some people are poor, cause their just unlucky, or born in the wrong area. But if you see the funds that come into pattaya and via via to Isaan, they could become middle class. It's only the carpe diem that makes that they stay what they are, poor.

 

 

The carpe diem ?

After wake up six o'clock in the morning working 7 day on seven in the rice farm for 200 baths a day. 36 to 40° under the sun.

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The carpe diem ?

After wake up six o'clock in the morning working 7 day on seven in the rice farm for 200 baths a day. 36 to 40° under the sun.

 

What I mean is, over here, when you go to a disco, there won't be any people during the week. I guess it won't the hard working rice farmers either, celebrating until the early hours and drinking JW.

The thing is that few Thai people can handle money, when they have some today, they'll spend it right away, therefore 'carpe diem'.

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Well I was in Ubon once, we went to a disco on a Wednesday and the whole place was loaded with thai people drinking whiskey. I thought, wtf, are they all drinking sponsor money, or what?

 

I'm sure a lot of bg's or even their family would be good middle class, at least if they could handle money. Sure some people are poor, cause their just unlucky, or born in the wrong area. But if you see the funds that come into pattaya and via via to Isaan, they could become middle class. It's only the carpe diem that makes that they stay what they are, poor.

 

Most Issan folk don't have the means to break out of the poverty/debt cycle but as you mentioned even those who do lack the financial education to manage the money. Even if they find a good means of income, be it working in a bar or otherwise. It will often all be squandered just as quickly as it is brought in. They could be middle class but gambling, buying 10 motorbikes or drinking whiskey is more important to them.

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I was surprised when I visited Udon Thani and Nong Kai.....lots of people own their own land....I was surprised by the lack of poverty....I was more

concerned about the smog!

"Tax the Wealthy....Redistribute their wealth to the Poor....bring Swedish Socialism to America"

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All you have to do is travel to the north or to areas outside the cities and you will find what poverty is. They live anyway they can, and that is not too good sometimes. What I did find is that they do find riches in their family (except fathers who want their daughters to supply them with money.) It is a rough life. And yes, that vet who works on their sick buffalo has to be the richest guy in the country.

We go around the world many times, but where we land is important and the most satisfying.

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Read somewhere that the new Thai Prime Minister has introduced an act of paliment called the "sick buffalo doctor regeneration programme".

This is yet to be ratified by the thai parliment, but would mean that the billions of thai baht embezzeled by Tachksin and the rest of his theiving crew would be used on a programme for the rehabilitation and caring of sick buffalos.

 

This programme has been deeply opposed by the BGP (bar girls of Pattaya and Phucket) as a poorly-thought out plan devised by the current goverment to deprive them of their lucrative excuse to con their stupid farang boyfriends.

 

The mayor of Pattaya has agreed to meet with the BGP to relay their concerns to the goverment and request changes to the new "Buffalo Bill".

The BGP claim the proposed bill will have similar implications as the bill proposed last year "The payment of grandma's hospital charges bill" which was fought (and defeated) by the BGP).

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There is in fact a lot of real poverty in Issan. Lots of people who rent their land to grow some rice, chili or tobacco. People really depending on crop prices and that have to work hard. If you see wealth in the more remote villages, it is usually brought in by family members who work in Bangkok or Rayong, only coming home to see their wife and kids for Songkran and some other hollidays.

And than there are those families lucky enough to have a daughter work in Pattaya as a BG or maybe have a falang husband.

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This is the reason why Thailand is so poor!! The rich always seem very rich!!

that is true i live in Vietnam at the time and here its the same never saw bentleys and rolls like that before and on the other hand so much poverty... its bizarre

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The carpe diem ?

After wake up six o'clock in the morning working 7 day on seven in the rice farm for 200 baths a day. 36 to 40° under the sun.

 

Iget up at 5:30 am and work until 6-7pm nearly always 7 days a week - granted its not on a rice farm but i still work my balls off and my wages are outrageously higher than what the thai would be on but its all relevent, their houses are cheaper ,food is cheaper, petrol , ect.

the same can be said as a lot of peple thikn the thais uneducated - funny how the bg who only had a years school who worked in the shirt factory is able to read the sub titles in the cinema and send me e mails and sms in english !.

globally there will always be a devide between the wealthy and poor just look at here in the uk 90% of the wealth is owned by 6% of the population . Even on the poorest scale in the uk they are pretty hard done by as the dole is only £60 a week - in Ireland its over 200 euros a week !

you can look anywhere in the world and say they are poor and then reliase the people have been robbed by their leaders look at africa, think of all the natural resources wasted and traded for guns so they can kill each other.

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LOL...20 billion is chump change...divided equally, that 500 million each...that wouldnt even get you on the list of the top 100 in the USA.

 

all relative i guess.

 

cheers, alex

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40 richest Thais have combined $20 billion​

Bangkok Post

 

Thailand is certainly not a poor country!!!!

and AS everywhere in this word the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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Thailand isn't poor, just pretends to be poor unlike the U.K that really is poor yet pretends to be rich.

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Sure lots of Thais are very poor. But there is a burgeoning middle class, who have made 'big' money from the huge amount of building going on everywhere. People who owned Land here in Pattaya that was given to them by Papa 'cos it was 'useless', was suddenly very valuable for housing and condo development.

 

In my Village most of the huge expensive houses are owned by Thais who made fortunes this way.

 

Nowadays, due to the lousy exchange rates, most of us Farangs shop carefully in Tesco etc. While most Thais pile up their trolleys to bursting point......Good luck to them.

 

I have a ten year old car. My Thai neighbour has a brand new pickup that cost more than my house!

"If you think you can do it, or you think you can't.....You are right!"

Henry Ford.

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