my kingdom for an apple

A young 17-year-old student chinese, unable to buy an ipad, decide to sell his kidney to get enouth money to get one. some time later, a young chinese girl decide to sell her virginity to get an i phone 4.
Now those grisly stories show the shift between reality of life an fantasy of luxuriousness today. Media participate to dispay the idea of richess as an common goal for every one. And the attraction to objects like apple's products can bring to that extreme kind of behavior. The gap between richs and poors is becoming bigger and bigger nowadays. But the way people behave in front of  richess and outdoor signs of richess is may be as important as the economic facts.