Ok, let's say. Explain - an unemployed Indian from the lower caste who collected waste, and lives on the income from renting it, for $ 1 a day, without financial obligations, what has he lost?
But the one who has, even a small business, has lost - lost clients, lost income, but has COSTS (rent, loans, tax liabilities, etc.)
Therefore, the picture is just not the same as you imagine - the poor really have nothing to lose ... Therefore, countries with a low standard of living and a high level of poverty objectively incur fewer losses ...
I am from India and you are talking absolute rubbish. I know a lot of people who are literally starving right now. These people were just surviving even before the pandemic, and now their situation is much worse. You never know their issues, until you step in to their shoes. I am relatively well off, and I consider myself lucky. I am getting my salary on time, and my expenses have actually seen a decline. That is not the case with the poor people. They are in a very hard position right now.
And I guess he mentioned "class" and not "caste".
Most likely, I did not express my thought unambiguously, and I took India as an example incorrectly, India is not suitable for conveying the meaning that I wanted to convey. India is not a poor country. Although part of the population lives in poverty or below the poverty line. This situation is common in many countries. I meant really poor countries. For example Haiti, CAR, Congo, Liberia, Burundi, Malawi and the like.
Let me explain again - the poor countries that I am talking about and which I mean are countries where there is no significant or noticeable stratum of the middle class, or a class that has a regular, albeit not large income and is involved in production, private business, public service. , or the provision of services, a country where there is total poverty, where there is no noticeable consumer demand, and hence the movement of money. So it is for such countries that today's global problems have not affected the consumer market and the labor market. Just as the majority of the population did not have work - and it did not, as the turnover was minimal - it remained so, industrial production did not fall due to its absence. We have not lost our positions in the external market - because they never existed.