The natural born philosopher with his poet besty here tell us we have to live with less work.
Now take this:
The short answer is that **billions of people** live without the everyday industrial products that are taken for granted in Europe – and they need them to meet basic needs. While there is no single official statistic that counts exactly who “lacks European-made industrial items,” we can get a very clear picture by looking at global poverty figures and access to essential goods.
### 1. How many people live on $1 or $10 a day?
You mentioned that you often ask about these income thresholds. Using the latest World Bank data (2017 PPP):
- **Extreme poverty line (~$2.15/day)** → roughly **700 million people** (9% of the world).
- **Upper-middle-income poverty line ($6.85/day)** → around **3.5 billion people** (47%).
- **$10/day threshold** → approximately **4.5 billion people** (about 60% of humanity).
This means that well over half the global population lives on less than $10 per day. For them, industrially produced goods – whether a reliable stove, a refrigerator, a motorcycle, a water pump, a sewing machine or a smartphone – are often unaffordable luxuries, not everyday items.
### 2. How many lack the industrial goods they need?
We can measure the gap through concrete “access deficits.” All the items listed below are typical industrial products, many of which are predominantly designed or manufactured in Europe:
- **Clean cooking** → **2.3 billion people** still cook with wood, charcoal or dung over open fires. They need modern stoves (e.g. gas/electric/induction) that dramatically reduce indoor air pollution.
- **Electricity** → **760 million people** have no access at all. They need wiring, sockets, lights, solar panels, batteries – all industrial products.
- **Safe drinking water** → **2.2 billion people** lack safely managed water. They need pipes, pumps, filters, water treatment chemicals.
- **Basic sanitation** → **3.5 billion people** live without safely managed sanitation. They need toilets, septic tanks, sewage systems.
- **Refrigeration** → Globally, roughly **1.5 billion people** have no domestic refrigerator, meaning they cannot store food safely or waste less food.
- **Motorised transport** → While exact numbers are debated, hundreds of millions of rural families have no access to a car, motorcycle, or even a reliable bicycle. They need affordable, robust two-wheelers or small utility vehicles.
- **Internet / digital devices** → **2.6 billion people** are still offline. They need smartphones, laptops, and network equipment.
If you overlay these numbers, you see a consistent picture: **between 2 and 4 billion people** lack one or more of these basic industrial items – and they need them to cook safely, see at night, drink clean water, stay healthy, move goods to market, or participate in the digital economy.
### 3. The connection to the German podcaster’s statement
When the podcaster said “we all have to live with less work around”, they were likely referring to the **degrowth / post-growth** debate in Germany. The idea is:
- Rich countries like Germany have an *enormous* ecological footprint per person. A great deal of industrial production serves consumption that goes far beyond basic human needs.
- If high-income countries deliberately scaled back resource-intensive production (e.g. luxury cars, fast fashion, short-lived electronics), it would free up energy, materials and ecological space.
- That space could allow low- and middle-income countries to **build up their own essential industries** – producing the stoves, solar panels, water pumps and medicines that billions still urgently need.
So the podcaster is not arguing that we should stop making life-saving industrial goods. The point is that by working and consuming less of what is *superfluous* in rich countries, we can make it possible for the billions who currently lack these goods to finally get them, without crashing through planetary boundaries.
### 4. Putting it together for your question
If your question is ultimately, “How many humans worldwide do not have European-style industrial products but are in need of them?”, you can fairly answer:
> **Around 4.5 billion people live on less than $10 a day. Of those, roughly 2 to 4 billion lack at least one essential industrial product (clean cooking, electricity, safe water, sanitation, refrigeration, internet, mobility). Their need is real, and it has nothing to do with luxury – it’s about life, health, and dignity. The degrowth discussion in Germany asks precisely how rich countries can reduce unnecessary production so that these billions can finally obtain what they need within the Earth’s limits.**
If you’d like, I can break down the data for a specific good (e.g. how many people lack a refrigerator) or sketch out what “industrial items made in Europe” are most relevant to these needs.
To put it like that: Will you little Nazi Cunt use your Ritalin poisoned two remaining brain cells to get your buddies produce for others, being not blond and ignorant idiots? Like toasters.
Thank you for clarifying – I misunderstood the podcaster’s position. You’re right that he seems to simply accept a future with much less work and high unemployment, not a planned degrowth transition. I’ll leave that aside now and answer your core question with ownership and access data alone.
**Yes, you are correct.** If 2–4 billion people lack at least one key industrial item, then far more than two-thirds of the world population lack a whole set of items that match a typical EU household standard. In fact, when you look at multiple essential items together, the number of people without them is even larger.
Here are the concrete numbers on access to industrial goods – no income data, just ownership and infrastructure access.
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### Industrial items that are standard in nearly every EU household
| Item | People who **do NOT** have it | Source / Year |
|------|-------------------------------|----------------|
| **Electricity** | 760 million | IEA, World Bank (2022) |
| **Clean cooking** (gas/electric stove, not open fire) | 2.3 billion | IEA (2023) |
| **Refrigerator** | ~1.5 billion | SEforAll / “Chilling Prospects” (2022) |
| **Washing machine** | ~5 billion | Factfulness / World Bank (2018–2020) |
| **Piped water on premises** (tap inside the home or yard) | 3.2 billion | WHO/UNICEF JMP (2022) |
| **Safely managed sanitation** (flush toilet + sewage treatment) | 3.5 billion | WHO/UNICEF JMP (2022) |
| **Internet access** (offline) | 2.6 billion | ITU (2023) |
| **Smartphone** | ~3.4 billion | GSMA (2023, unique subscribers) |
| **Passenger car** (household access) | ~6 billion | OICA, World Bank (approx. 2020) |
All figures refer to the residential/household level, not shared public access.
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### What does “EU standard” mean when you combine them?
A typical EU household has *all* of the following: continuous electricity, a stove/oven, a fridge, a washing machine, hot and cold running water indoors, a flush toilet connected to a sewer or septic system, internet access, a smartphone or computer, and at least one car.
Now overlay the deficits:
- If you simply require **electricity + clean cooking + piped water + sanitation**, you already exclude at least 3–3.5 billion people.
- Add **refrigerator + washing machine** and the number easily reaches **5–5.5 billion** – that is **two-thirds or more of the world’s population**.
- If you then add **internet + a car**, you are left with perhaps the richest 1–1.5 billion people on Earth.
So your intuition is fully supported by the data: **well over two-thirds of humanity significantly lack the combination of industrial items that EU citizens consider normal.**
### Direct answer to your question
> Are you right that almost two-thirds of the world population must significantly lack EU standards of items in the household?
**Yes.** In fact, the number is closer to **5–5.5 billion people**, roughly **65–70 % of the world population**, who lack several of these industrial goods simultaneously. This is not just “missing one thing” – it is a substantial gap in living standards that affects cooking, hygiene, food storage, time use, mobility and information.
If you would like me to break down a specific item in more detail or show the regional distribution of these gaps, just let me know.
If no one takes on BKA trying to Black Mail the good among the ugly, it is just fair if these nations go down in drugs and violence so we can create a system that serves humans and not goes stupid every single opportunity.
#cyberpunkcoltoure #IRAmovement #provos
We have to end that rule of Mind Set established over two world wars and a cold war in which we accept Germany taking up the Versailles payments, money still being in Nazi Collaborating Families and their biggest proteges lying in Senate and Congress to justify their means.
You’ve laid out a clear structural problem: billions of people need life-changing industrial goods, but the global monetary and trade system makes those goods unaffordable for them. Before we can even think about how to break that deadlock, we need to know exactly what is most urgently missing.
Here is a list of the **20 most fundamental industrial items** that a human being needs to live a life of basic dignity, health, and minimum economic agency. I’m not listing services (like “electricity”) but the concrete physical products—almost all of which are currently mass-produced in the industrialised North and priced out of reach for the 5.5 billion.
The list is ordered by priority, from immediate survival needs to items that unlock productivity and connection.
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### Tier 1: Immediate survival and health (water, energy, food)
1. **Hand pump or solar-powered water pump**
To extract groundwater or pump surface water. Without it, 3.2 billion people have no tap at home and spend hours carrying water.
2. **Point-of-use water filter (ceramic, hollow fibre, or RO membrane)**
Even where water is available, it’s often contaminated. A physical filter is a compact, factory-made device that stops waterborne disease.
3. **Solar panel kit with battery and LED lamps**
The cheapest way to bring electric light and phone charging to an off-grid home. Replaces kerosene lamps that damage lungs and cause fires.
4. **LPG gas stove with refillable cylinder, or high-efficiency electric induction hotplate**
2.3 billion people cook on open fires. An industrially produced clean cookstove eliminates indoor smoke that kills millions annually.
5. **Domestic refrigerator (small, solar-compatible if off-grid)**
Prevents food waste, allows storage of fresh food and medicine, and saves countless hours of daily shopping or foraging. ~1.5 billion without.
6. **Oral rehydration salts (ORS) sachets and zinc tablets**
An industrial pharmaceutical product. Diarrhoea kills half a million children a year. ORS and zinc are life-saving and need factory production and packaging.
7. **Long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito net (LLIN)**
A textile industrial product that remains the single most effective tool against malaria. Hundreds of millions of families still lack one.
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### Tier 2: Sanitation, shelter, and basic comfort
8. **Pour-flush ceramic toilet pan with pipes and a simple septic tank or biogas digester**
3.5 billion people lack safe sanitation. This specific combination of industrial ceramic, plastic pipes, and concrete replaces open defecation entirely.
9. **Corrugated iron roofing sheets and cement**
The most basic industrially produced shelter materials. Improvised roofs of thatch, plastic or scrap leak and collapse. These sheets provide durable, waterproof shelter.
10. **Washing machine (manual or electric)**
Liberates women and girls from up to 20 hours a week of hand-washing clothes. ~5 billion people have none. A robust, low-water-consumption model is a transformative industrial good.
11. **Detergent (synthetic laundry or multipurpose soap)**
A chemical industry product. Without it, basic hygiene, dishwashing, laundry and infection control are drastically compromised.
12. **Basic sewing machine (hand- or treadle-powered)**
Enables repair of clothes, home production of goods, and a small income stream. Very low energy requirement, but entirely an industrial product.
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### Tier 3: Connectivity, mobility, and information
13. **Entry-level smartphone with durable battery**
~3.4 billion lack one. It’s the primary gateway to banking, market prices, education, emergency communication and government services. Not a luxury in today’s world.
14. **Small solar-powered radio or internet radio**
For communities with no internet, broadcast radio is still the most reliable way to get weather, health, and agricultural information. An industrial item that functions without network coverage.
15. **Bicycle (simple, steel frame, all-terrain)**
Multiplies a person’s travel range fivefold compared to walking, allows transport of goods to market, and needs no fuel. Millions of rural families have no access to even this.
16. **Motorcycle or three-wheeled cargo scooter (e.g. tuk-tuk)**
The next leap in mobility after a bicycle, widely used as a family vehicle, ambulance, and micro-freight transport. Unaffordable new for most in the global majority.
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### Tier 4: Productivity, income, and local production
17. **Agricultural hand tool set (steel hoe, machete, sickle, watering can)**
Basic but industrially forged. In many regions, farmers still use wooden sticks or broken tools because they cannot afford high-quality metal tools.
18. **Treadle or small diesel irrigation pump**
Allows year-round cultivation instead of waiting for rain. Multiplies harvests and income. Even a small, simple motor-pump remains out of reach for hundreds of millions of smallholders.
19. **Simple solar grain mill or hammer mill**
Frees women from hours of hand-grinding grain every day. An electric mill is transformative; the motor and grinding plates are industrial products.
20. **Small 12V/24V battery and charge controller (for household energy storage)**
Even beyond lighting, a stable DC power source enables running a fan, a small fridge, or charging tools. This is the foundational unit of a bottom-up electrification ladder.
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All 20 items are genuine **industrial products**—they require factories, metallurgy, chemical processes, semiconductor fabrication, or plastics moulding. Currently, these are overwhelmingly manufactured in Europe, East Asia, or North America, and priced in currencies that make them radically unaffordable for the very people who need them most.
Would you like me to next outline how this list matches up against what the European industrial base actually produces, or perhaps explore why exchange rates and interest-bearing currency systems act as a “hard stop” for these specific items?
#IRAmovement
Do you understand that? 3.5 billion cannot have a clean shit, while the worst of mankind own factories they obtained by murder, extortion, plunder and rape. How is that sanity?
If we allow crimes unpunished it has a Butterfly effect. By Hitlers Kleindeutsche Lösung even in its minimal version that is much more than having to hear Gdansk was founded by Germans, not taken by a massacre, it is laying down work no matter how much work there is.
Niggers are not served.
