Comment: The "dollar Street" is a magical site, which envisioned a world all live in the same street, their house sorted by income. The more time you spend browsing the site, the more clearly find the basic needs of all of us are the same. From which you can get is a revelation - our common ground between each other than we actually thought it would be and more.
本文系译文，原文作者是比尔盖茨。
I was hooked on a website called "dollar Street" (Dollar Street) is.
"US street" by the "truth" Anna Rosling · in London (Anna Rosling Rönnlund) to create a co-author of the book, which envisioned a world all live in the same street, the house in accordance with the level of income in order of priority. Poorest people live in a street, the richest man in another direction.
Compared location of the house, better able to explain the income level of people's living conditions. Whenever a new place to go, I will go looking reflect the local level of household income clue - there is wire it? Roof of the house is what? People travel by bike or on foot?
Answers to these questions will tell me a lot of information about the local people.
If I see wire, I know this place home may have access to electricity - which means children after the sun sets there are enough lighting to homework.
If I see the roof was pieced together, think of the family may not be able to sleep during the rainy season, because that would be wet and cold.
If I see a bike, you know that people do not have to spend hours a day fetching water on foot.
"US dollar Street" on the importance of income levels had a wonderful interpretation.
Anna will be sent to photographers around the world, captured images of hundreds of families. You can based on income and location, and even household items to families classification (for example, you can take the bed, detergent or cooking supplies). Each house is carefully marked, also accompanied by a live in the house of the family introduction. You can browse each family 135 articles on the site, from the door of their house to the shoes they wear.
When you start comparing those living items, "the dollar Street" becomes especially vivid. I found all kinds of toothbrush photos particularly interesting. The other end of the street will be the poorest families with a finger or a stick to clean the teeth, can once they reach a certain income level, and everyone started from the plastic toothbrush.
You spend browsing time on the "street dollars," the more, the more clearly find the basic needs of all of us are the same.
If people have higher incomes, you will want to spend money to buy the same things, whether living in China or Cameroon. At the end of the day, we all want a solid roof, more efficient way to travel and better tools to take care of ourselves. This is a wonderful reminder to us: We work with the other side of the world people have more in common than we thought.
Anna and her Gapminder (a Swedish non-profit organization, serves to remind us there is a gap in vivid statistical data) team successfully captured the most complete picture of human beings I have ever seen.
I can spend hours browsing "street dollars", hope you can go and see.
Original link: the What IF the Everyone in world lived at The Same, ON at The Street?
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