Comment on Slaves Of Dubai by MARX77

Very sad, but it's not limited to one country or regime. The degree of comfort that the developed world takes for granted is an unreality for a very large majority of this planet's population.

The degree of privilege entrenched by subsidies, tax systems, trade quotas etc is quite horrifying. Those who participated in the "Occupy" movement felt something of this. These guys, and the billions of people outside of privilege have no voice. Who cares about the person who picked the coffee beans, so long as the coffee isn't too expensive (or cold). Who cares that we have systematically eradicated subsistence farming by various illusions of 'progress' and development, whilst some very small minorities get rich and many poor people who could feed themselves starve.

I firmly believe that, in part, we need to eloquently tell these stories, of the inhumanity to humanity. Because the privileged will be drawn by the eloquence, and the 'art', and then some will be touched by the message.
These stories are on the fringes of every city, of every country, if we will open our eyes to what the world doesn't want us to see.

But the images are not 'cool', and not popular. Just important.

I guess I'm ranting, but the less we try, the more culpable we each are.