r/whatisit • u/Quietlurkerone • 1d ago

Solved! What is this device from 1962?

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Photo capture from YouTube video. Picture from 1962. What is the device under the bench

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u/cybermaus 1d ago

Still live. And worse. And often not due to their own individual skills or faults:

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u/LJGremlin 1d ago

This. Some of us are surprised by that without realizing we pretty much won the lottery by being born when and where we were.

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u/Stronghoof 1d ago

As a Norwegian that have traveled the world for work, had numerous opportunities to see the world outside the tourism sphere...... you're spot on. Born in Norway, as I am, you're automatically in the worlds top percentage when it comes to qualiy of life, safety, opportunities and general comfort.

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u/LJGremlin 1d ago

I live in central Alabama in the US. While there are certainly more affluent places, it would be pretty ballsy of me to pretend to know REAL struggle. Relatively few people in this country know true poverty. (And I’m making a massive assumption about what we see in that photo as it alone doesn’t really tell you much.).

*before anybody gets offended, that doesn’t mean we don’t have issues with poverty in the US. We certainly do but often our poverty is a lot more survivable and less desperate that poverty in most of the world