What about, for instance, South Africa or Venezuela; want, squalor and ignorance do prevail in these places to the extent that people may be forced to turn to crime simply to survive. Asks John Blance.
One of the miracles of the human condition is the fact that in many places around the world, people are able to live in conditions of real poverty and deprivation without turning to crime or living in squalor. Such people live on less money than we can imagine here in the west and yet are honest, clean and proud. They have not lost their self-respect. Once you lose that, no amount of money will satisfy you. Here in our lazy decadent society, we not only worship money but our modern heros are often those who managed to acquire it effortlessly, without working.
Yes, there is great poverty in this country, but it has nothing to do with money