I'm sorry, I can't agree with that.  In all of history, any time a few people held all of the wealth while the majority didn't, things were bad for the majority masses (Rome, Enlightenment France, Middle Ages, US/England during the Industrial Revolution, and so on).  The Roman people often had it very good.  They were at times fed and paid on a daily basis by the state (welfare).  On the other hand, their lives were often brutal and short (aside: sometimes the same held for the Emporer ;) ).

True, the US poverty is nothing compared to other places in the world but that isn't the fault of the US (directly or for the most part) - much of it in Africa, for instance, has to do with corrupt governments and tribal/faction in-fighting.  That's certainly not a news flash, now is it?

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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