No word is adequate to describe the immensity of the suffering that people have to undergo if they sink into the depths of poverty, but the following pictures could throw some lights on how desperate people could become if they are really poor…
If you are really very poor —
A. You live like this…
B. You travel to work like this…
C. You must work overtime for very little pay. Your boss normally makes sure that you will “live in” at your workplace so you are always ready to work extra hours as and when you are needed. This is a typical “sweat shop” hostel for workers…
D. Of course, you will never earn enough to support your family, so you may need to go deep into the mountains to collect firewood or fruits —in fact ANYTHING—for sale to feed your family…
E. If you are really dirt poor—yes, absolutely penniless—you may have to live at hill tops where you can build your own wooden hut without the need to pay rentals. But that FREE lodging comes hard with a price, which is that whenever you return home, that homecoming trip may be a long day’s journey into the clouds…
…and the above wooden hut might be the best dream house that a very poor man can ever hope to own anywhere on Earth—detached in a way that is without immediate neighbours, it being at the same time free from land tax or rental.