The game console pictured is the Sony PlayStation 2. As of May 5, 2002, Sony had sold over 30 million of them world wide [1]. That represents billions of U.S. dollars that could have been used to help some of the many people around the world who do not have even their most basic needs met. Unfortunately, it was wasted instead. There is nothing specifically wrong with the PlayStation 2; it is just one of the many frivilous things that are given priority over the basic needs of others.

The second photograph is a picture of a starving and ill Somali child waiting to die in an NGO centre in Baidoa. The room in the picture was for children too far gone for the aid workers to waste precious food and medicines on them. The photograph was taken by Greg Marinovich [2].

Why was this child's life valued less than entertainment?

See this to see a more significant graphic exploration of misplaced priorities based on the same idea as this page.

[1] http://www.us.playstation.com/news/PressReleases/415014851.asp
[2] http://digitalfilmmaker.net/Bang/bangbangclub.html



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