I'd love to be optimistic here, but I also need to be honest. We have talked about the poor for over 2000 years. Leaders have come and go, promising "This time will be different". We still have the poor. One of the wealthiest nations on earth, the United States, waged a 50 year "War on Poverty" that left the poverty rate in this country right where it started. We've seen economic systems based on slavery, agrarianism, feudalism, mercantilism, capitalism, socialism, etc. Men have marched with banners and torches, youth have occupied parks and university offices, peasants have raised pitchforks, students Molotov cocktails, and the collected poets, musicians and writers for stage and screen -- they've all given it a try. At the very least this record of failure recommends a certain humility before the problem.
Sometimes I wonder if we are like a physician in the pre-Pasteur days, who vows to fight infection at all costs, commanding that the windows be shuttered to keep out the noxious fresh air, but who fails to realize that he is actually spreading disease by his very hands?
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