When the markets tank, editors need a photograph to illustrate the terrible loss of value in equities most people either don't own and don't understand. The obvious photograph -- poor people eating trash in the alley because they have no food and no home -- is never used, because it would seem racist. Instead, the general-news media relies on a never-ending stock collection of floor traders looking exhausted, or, like in this
A Children's Treasury of Sad Stock Traders
A Children's Treasury of Sad Stock Traders
A Children's Treasury of Sad Stock Traders
When the markets tank, editors need a photograph to illustrate the terrible loss of value in equities most people either don't own and don't understand. The obvious photograph -- poor people eating trash in the alley because they have no food and no home -- is never used, because it would seem racist. Instead, the general-news media relies on a never-ending stock collection of floor traders looking exhausted, or, like in this