Excellent thoughts again. Sharp group in here you have collected Jeff! For what it is worth from the frigid mountains, humanity yearns for utopia but no human invention will ever solve the greatest issue at hand, humanity itself....the heart of the problem or the problem of the human heart. Captialism will crumble from within if there is endless greed. If the stock market crashes don't blame famine or lack or resources. Self-imposed? Politics of equality or socialism will crumble in time as that same greed eventually destroys. Youth often is seduced into thinking there must be easy answers. Been there/done that. But in time, from seeing first hand and teaching secretly behind the Iron Curtain, living in Miami and having good friends who lost family members dirctly at the hands of Castro....even teaching in the land of the long-weekend in Australia. I don't want to sound totally negative but the quest for an equal utopia, history proves, won't be in the end what it was meant to be. Sins of greed destroy a society. So do the sins of laziness. I believe in responsible hard work. I also believe in responsible benevolence. Put those two together and we should do right shouldn't we? Ah....but that balance is a hard thing to hold onto isn't it?