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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 03:13 PM Jun 2014

Portraits of people living on a dollar a day – in pictures

theguardian.com, Thursday 5 June 20
Portraits of people living on a dollar a day – in pictures
More than a billion people around the world subsist on a dollar a day, or less. The reasons differ but the day-to-day hardship of their lives are very similar. A book by Thomas A Nazario, founder of the International Organisation, documents the circumstances of those living in extreme poverty across the globe, accompanied by photographs from Pulitzer prizewinner Renée C Byer. Living On A Dollar a Day is published by Quantuck Lane

Link to photos: http://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2014/jun/05/portraits-of-people-living-on-a-dollar-a-day-in-pictures

Compare to THIS:

Mother Jones
PHOTOS: Top 10 Mega-Mansions of the Filthy Rich
Blogger Kenny Forder chronicles the real estate indulgences of the super wealthy on his blog.

Link to photos: http://www.motherjones.com/slideshows/2012/03/homes-rich/stone-mansion

What a world.

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Portraits of people living on a dollar a day – in pictures (Original Post) theHandpuppet Jun 2014 OP
I walked around the biggest house in GA when it was almost complete. onehandle Jun 2014 #1
bookmark for later reading Liberal_in_LA Jun 2014 #2
This thread needs a picture... TeeYiYi Jun 2014 #3
Thank, TYY theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #4
k+r ...nt TeeYiYi Jun 2014 #6
how utterly depressing frylock Jun 2014 #5

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. I walked around the biggest house in GA when it was almost complete.
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 03:37 PM
Jun 2014

32,000 square feet.

This was in the 90s. It was such a badly built piece of shit, that it has been torn down since then.

There are bigger houses in Georgia now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/us/22house.html

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
3. This thread needs a picture...
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 03:54 PM
Jun 2014
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Fati, eight, works with other children searching through hazardous waste on a waste dump for electronic devices in Accra, Ghana. Balancing a bucket on her head containing the metal she has found, tears stream down her face as the result of the pain from malaria.

TYY

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
4. Thank, TYY
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 04:05 PM
Jun 2014

I look at that face and think of the people who rest their heads upon the silk pillows of their palatial mansions and I wonder, how the hell do they sleep at night?

Very well, apparently.

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