While you are all asleep let me take this moment to say what I fear will be ripped to bits by all highly educated critics...makes for chicken soup for the soul neh? I love my country to bits...yeah go South Africa and hopefully we will win the World cup soccer bid for 2010. Heres to another 10 years of successful democracy... This forum has entertained me for a good part of the morning. First issue: The discussion is a combination of economics and humanism. Great combination for a discussion. Todays structure of economics simply cannot be explained and justified as it is just too broad for anyone to get their teeth around. Nowadays the distinguising factor of what is right and what is wrong has a very fine line, I'm not talking morally and ethically, I'm talking about opinionated discussions such as all the above. Everyone is a critic and that makes life interesting. With the rich come the poor. You all are contributing in some slight way to the rich man poor man syndrome, you all have cars, houses, food etc. which is directly or indirectly affecting the rich man somewhere along the line. In order to judge another is very easy, but unfair if you are living in the system as he. In order to judge effectively without bias you would have to grow up and live in a system that is not connected to the one you choose to judge or form an opinion about. If I were to grow up on an island, living subsistantly and happily without any contribution to the system than I would be more than righteous in my judgement of another. Money is the root of all evil and cannot solve anything at the end of the day. Throwing money at a problem will simply quell the fire under the pot for only if anything a moment(in terms of eradicating poverty). Educate the poor is the first step. I fear to say this...but you can never solve this problem as religion is one of the direct causes of most of our worldy problems...This will never be solved. If you could break that then we can all discuss ways on solving impoverished countries that will be realistic. Does Bill Gates actually deserve all his riches, why not?...you have more than likely bought something that is linked to his source of wealth.( At the end of the day he has donated more than all of us combined could ever attempt to manage) He could do more...at least he has done! We simply cannot understand why he doesn't do more...it is impossible, I now for me at least to try and comprehend being worth billion of dollars let alone our currency of rands. Public icons generally do crazy things due to 2 things - The money, and the society you interact with.