Modern agriculture and medicine has defied natural selection for a long time. However, this does not mean that mankind will continue to be able to do this, and nature may cause a massive culling of people on general principles.
Or, as some kind individual put it:
“Nature abhors a peasant.”
By the end of the 20th Century, almost all of the primitive cultures on Earth had been wiped out, for the sole reason that they could not compete with modernity. In fact, they could even coexist or be exposed to modernity without being placed in lethal jeopardy.
The same force applies to people making $2/day. There is no place left for them. Either they adapt and change or they are destined to die out in some way.
The same force applies to people making $2/day. There is no place left for them. Either they adapt and change or they are destined to die out in some way.
I suggest you look at Salgado’s images from the book Workers. Modern society is addicted to cheap labor.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2006/endoftheline1.html
Ship wrecking in bangladesh. $2.00 a day would be like a corner office to the folks who take ships apart by hand.