If you had to live on $1.25 a day, would you feel poor? How about $1.50? The difference may hardly seem worth bothering about. Many of the people reading this column spend more than $1.50 on their morning cappuccino. Yet depending on which figure you choose, the number of people classified as living in extreme poverty oscillates wildly.
如果你不得不依靠1.25美元度日，你会觉得窘迫么？那1.5美元呢？这两者的差别似乎并不值得费心。许多阅读这个专栏的读者早上购买卡布奇诺咖啡的花销就不止1.5美元。然而，取决于你选择的数字，被界定为生活极端贫困的人的数量将相去甚远。
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