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“Working for peanuts” means toiling for a very low wage. Sometimes, unfairly low.
Many have been wondering where this expression came from. What were its origins? Was it anything real? Is there anyone out there receiving a meager paycheck made of ground crops?
I went to a remote corner of this world and discovered that some slang has, well, a grain of truth.
I took this photo ten years ago in Burma’s Inle Lake. It was five in the afternoon, and the sun was just getting into that narrow-angle photographers like so much. I heard about Inle Lake from a friend who came back the year before full of stories about the people who spend their entire time on the lake – literally.
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Some say it’s the cost of their toys.
Others say it’s the responsibility.
I took this picture while taking a foot trek in eastern Burma *, a vast region called “Shan State.” The place is big, rural and mountainous and is populated by many non-Burmese ethnic groups. In many ways Shan State is the natural extension to the nearby Chinese province of Yunnan. Not surprisingly they both share a very long border.
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