{"id":3869,"date":"2008-12-17T01:02:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T07:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2008-12-17T01:02:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T07:02:38","slug":"needs-versus-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2008\/12\/17\/needs-versus-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"Needs versus wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much does <a href=\"http:\/\/menzelphoto.peripix.com\/viewdetails\/item\/10592\/size\/800\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this happy-seeming family in Mali<\/a> need?\u00a0 Not more than they <em>have, <\/em>it would seem.\u00a0 Or consider <a href=\"http:\/\/menzelphoto.peripix.com\/viewdetails\/item\/10592\/size\/800\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Soweto family<\/a> that lives in a 400 square foot home.\u00a0 Or consider <a href=\"http:\/\/menzelphoto.peripix.com\/viewdetails\/item\/10296\/size\/300\/20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this family from Bhutan<\/a>. For comparison, <a href=\"http:\/\/menzelphoto.peripix.com\/viewdetails\/item\/10437\/size\/800\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s a family from the U.S. <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/menzelphoto.peripix.com\/viewdetails\/item\/10782\/size\/800\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s a family from Japan<\/a>. And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/menzelphoto.peripix.com\/viewdetails\/item\/10763\/size\/300\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an especially happy looking family <\/a>from Guadalajara, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these photos is by Peter Menzel, <a href=\"http:\/\/menzelphoto.peripix.com\/u36\/search\/?searchtxt=material%20world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who photographed the possessions of families from around the world;<\/a> the photos were published in a 1995 book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Material-World-Global-Family-Portrait\/dp\/0871564300\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1229497118&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Material World<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Note: Some of these photos from Menzels own site display the goods acquired by a family since the time the 1995 photos were taken.<\/p>\n<p>I had earlier commented on other similar photos Menzel had taken displaying <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2007\/12\/05\/what-do-the-families-of-the-world-eat\/\" target=\"_blank\">what families from around the world eat. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much does this happy-seeming family in Mali need?\u00a0 Not more than they have, it would seem.\u00a0 Or consider this Soweto family that lives in a 400 square foot home.\u00a0 Or consider this family from Bhutan. For comparison, here&#8217;s a family from the U.S. and here&#8217;s a family from Japan. And here&#8217;s an especially happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,40],"tags":[3219,3218,221,3220],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-consumerism","tag-material-world","tag-menzel","tag-photos","tag-possessions","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}