See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income

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See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income

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What does it look like when someone in Sweden brushes their teeth or when someone in Rwanda makes their bed? Anna Rosling Rönnlund wants all of us to find out, so she sent photographers to 264 homes in 50 countries (and counting!) to document the stoves, bed, toilets, toys and more in households from every income bracket around the world. See how families live in Latvia or Burkina Faso or Peru as Rosling Rönnlund explains the power of data visualization to help us better understand the world.
TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4L130DkdOw&t=397s
Compare http://dollarstreet.org

Among many other things it visualizes that basic necessities can be fulfilled in a myriad of ways.

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The link is broken.

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This is really cool! In my 20 min or so of browsing, it appears that roughly everyone under $1,000 dreams of either owning a home or getting a bigger home. Interesante.

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Damn, the Lebanese have 2 tier dish drying racks! My dish rack is always full before the dishwater is dirty(all true). This was suppose to take me away from my first world problems for a while. Sigh...

I hate the proliferation of plastic chairs for the dining rooms, you neither save money nor have quality in the end with plastic.

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Very interesting second link. Thanks for an hour of entertainment!

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Compare [url wrote:http://dollarstreet.org[/url]
Amazing website.

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I wish they had done pictures of their feet, too.

As they did the hands, why not the feet? I am fascinated by strong, flexible, reliable, non-shod human feet. My assumption would be that the poor people from the tropics would take home all the prices for best natural (non-deform, non-weak, no-pain, no lack of balance or need for artificial support) feet, but unfortunately they didn't provide me with any data to test my hypothesis.

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