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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.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)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
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)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)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.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)TYY
frylock
(34,825 posts)knr