Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
This book was published in the 1940's. It captured in pictures and words rural life and poverty during the 1930's in the South. It was written by James Agee and had photographs by Walker Evans. It was originally going to be a magazine article about the life of share cropping families in the South. There was a parody of the subject printed in Time "Let Us Now Praise Resentful Men" where the striving of the wealthy to keep with the really wealthy was lampooned.
An article in the Motley Fool Investment letter caught my eye, " All Wealth Is Relative". Long story short: $1,000 a day may not pay for private schools, ritzy cars, fancy addresses, vacations and travel, but the average wage of a person of $40,000 is wealthy compared to people grinding it out on $2-$5 a day in Haiti.
Living in Miami, we have Fisher Island and a lot more people scraping by and still sending money to Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, or letting a friend sleep on their couch until they can find a job. Many things are relative or are your relatives.
Most discussions of this issue are ham handed because they just are.
An article in the Motley Fool Investment letter caught my eye, " All Wealth Is Relative". Long story short: $1,000 a day may not pay for private schools, ritzy cars, fancy addresses, vacations and travel, but the average wage of a person of $40,000 is wealthy compared to people grinding it out on $2-$5 a day in Haiti.
Living in Miami, we have Fisher Island and a lot more people scraping by and still sending money to Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, or letting a friend sleep on their couch until they can find a job. Many things are relative or are your relatives.
Most discussions of this issue are ham handed because they just are.
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