Powerful Image, Crucial Conversation on Poverty

This is an extremely powerful photo...

My comment, and the following comment, garnered a fair number of pluses:

There is probably more truth in this image than we can imagine. Some developed countries found ways to exploit developing countries, and made policy of such exploitation. Poverty is centuries in the making.

Exactly what the government does to the poor masses. 

Here are others' comments in this bit of discussion:

wow....some humans r just heartless...now

really powerful image....dug a deep hole in my heart!!!!!

Man's inhumanity to man!

its a saddnes true ....the world belongs to rich

Not rich just assholes, many" rich" people are nice and give tons to charity.....

Is very sad not all white people are like that n get blamed for the ones who are like this

What does this have to do with skin color? It's in black and white. Their skin looks the same to me.

The man = government..The child = everyone else.. could also say racial slavery too. But mainly a case of those who have money have power, maybe the case in society, but means nothing in nature!!

In even the smallest of ways, I believe this sort of conversation is crucial.  This sort of conversation may be replicated with another image or with moving quotes, and we keep replicating it, until there is a buzz, a rumble, a tectonic on dealing with poverty.