This is a great article. Very interesting way to see a situation on the other side.

I worked in Circus and with a lot of sideshow artists. Some people use to get mad at people like PT Barnum saying he took advantage of people and put them on display. While a small bit may be true, by large, he gave work to people that would have otherwise been shunned by society at that time. They were paid a great wage, and the people with them o tour were thier friends.

What you wrote about above and this I can see having cross overs in this sense.