Half the world's 2.8bn workers are trapped in jobs that leave them and their families struggling to survive on less than $2 a day, with little prospect of escape from grinding poverty, the International Labour Organisation said yesterday.Two dollars is an approximate equivalent of what I paid for the copy of the Financial Times in which I first read this. We are the world...In its latest world employment report, the ILO says an estimated 1.4bn workers - a record number - live on less than $2 a day, while 550m live on less than $1 a day.
Imagine trying to explain to visitors from a future world - or just people from another world - in which such facts about our world do not obtain, how so many of the people of our world manage to persuade themselves that this is a tolerable state of affairs.
