An insight into class and other differentiations… August 17, 2011
Posted by WorldbyStorm in Culture, Economy.trackback
The Slate Culture Gabfest had a link to this, photos from a book by photographer James Mollison which looks at ‘Where Children Sleep’.
For a visual insight into issues of class and gender you’ll have to go far to find something quite as hard hitting, even in the instance of some of the children as harrowing, as this.
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Via Daring Fireball I saw this today:
“Instead of opposing redistribution because people expect to make it to the top of the economic ladder, the authors of the new paper argue that people don’t like to be at the bottom. One paradoxical consequence of this “last-place aversion” is that some poor people may be vociferously opposed to the kinds of policies that would actually raise their own income a bit but that might also push those who are poorer than them into comparable or higher positions.”
http://www.economist.com/node/21525851
Food for thought?