Making a welding machine in the third world - video

[TheElderBrother]

These are all good answers. But the main reason, from what I saw when I was traveling in India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, is that most of them are unaccustomed to using chairs and other furniture we westerners take for granted. When you visit the common worker's home, they have rugs on the floor, and very little in the way of wood furniture. They take meals that way, and visit that way. Their leisure time, when not playing some kind of sport or hunting, is spent sitting together.

Chairs are for the luxurious and the lazy, according to them. Tables too. It's a fascinating lesson in how much we really have, even when we're poor by our own standards. By their standards we're all millionaires. (There's a saying that's been attributed to a hundred sources, usually custom made to fit the narrative, about how America is a place where even the poor are fat. It's trite and it's convenient, but it's also true.)