Dollar Street: How People Live at Different Income Levels
TED · Talk · 12 min · 2018 · YouTube title: See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Why it's here
HN recommends it as an insightful, perspective-giving look at how people live across income levels, useful as a counter to pessimism.
What it covers
Anna Rosling Rönnlund presents Dollar Street, a project photographing homes in dozens of countries, from stoves to beds to toilets, and sorting them by income. She shows how data visualization can change how we see the world.