Cows are better off than half the world

"For half the world's population the brutal reality is this: you'd be
better off as a cow. The average European cow receives $2.20 (£1.40)
a day from the taxpayer in subsidies and other aid. Meanwhile, 2.8
billion people in developing countries around the world live on less
than $2 a day."

"One World Bank economist has warned that as television and cinema
bring home to the poor the gap between their lives and the west, the
rich may have to lock themselves in gated enclaves to keep out the
dispossessed and angry masses."