If Chile Were My Home

I would make 55.68% less money

• Less impulse buying
• Decision of whether or not to spend money more important
• More important to manage budget
• Live less freely

I would have 15.33% less Free Time

• More time spent working
• Less time for relaxation
• More stressful environment
• Less internal happiness

I'd be 15.49% Less likely to be unemployed

• Better chances of finding a job
• More opportunities, possibly more job variety
• Better chance of stable income, yet less than Canadian standards
• Better quality of life

I'd spend 80.78% Less on healthcare

• Less expenditure allows for more financial flexibility
• Less dread of potential surgery costs
• Possibly worse healthcare quality
• Possibly less healthcare workers to equate the loss of public income

I'd consume 71.45% less Oil

• Less harmful modes of transportation
• Less air pollution
• Less oil-based heating, possibly another source, possibly less heating in general
• Other methods of energy?

I'd Be 49.04% more likely to die as an infant

• Confirms worse healthcare suspicions
• Could lose a child
• ~1/2 chance I would not exist
• ~1/2 chance my sister would not exist

I'd experience 62.31 more of a class divide

• Worse life if born poorer than median
• Possibly more discrimination
• Bullying in schools likely
• Very low chance that a middle class would exist

I'd be 33.33% more likely to have aids

• I could die from or lose someone to AIDS
• I would have to be more preventive and conservative
• More injection drug users
• Life could be ruined easily

Pros and Cons

• Pros: Spend less on healthcare, use less oil, less air pollution.
• Cons: High risk of AIDS, higher infant mortality rate, very low earnings.
• I very obviously would not want to be born in Chile.