poor and rich

When a country is extremely poor(economic poor) , the people eat will eat a lot of stable food (eg, rice, bread etc) to fill up the hunger.

But when the country turn into extremely rich, the lower status people will turn to the main staple food (big portion) cause everything else is so expensive.

So what's the difference between rich and poor country? Leave aside politic, just plainly the lower status of people. 

Poor country,                           1. high crime rate,                 2. unstable income thus unstable food income, shelter and other basic necessities like water and electricity.                             3.Bad health care. 

Rich country,                             1.stress of paying bills (all kind of bills).                               2.time used for work is more than personal and sleep.                                           3.human relationship (relatives or friends) weighs more with money than loyalty, friendship or family.   4.medical is too high cost for those who need of higher treatment. Cheaper ones will have to wait and by that time, most probably you are a goner.                                       5.society will be too expensive to take care elderly if the elderly do not save enough for retirement. Becoming a burden to the next generation.                         6.low birth rate cause everything is too expensive and those who can afford to live a better life do not want their lifestyle to be change or most probably, they only make 1 baby to fulfil the parent role.

On this tiny red dot called Singapore, the old guards did a great job. But the coming new generations, they are generating a gap and that gap is getting out of hand with no controlling of whatsoever except giving out handouts of little money. Inflation is rising fast amid the covid crisis, jobs are filled by competitive outsiders. For those who are middle and higher income earners, they does not seems to be bother and won't not care less.

To summarise my view, I think we need to balance between our country economy and at the same time, maintain an affordable, livable society. We cannot keep going to score the KPI on improving the GDP and keep stretching the people to work harder, longer and put on a achievement smile of when you only stay in a box size house (HDB or condo) or own a car that you fret everytime petrol price increase