Some day people may understand that the true standard of living in a country is defined by that of its poorest 10%, not by that of its richest 1%.
This is the key reason why Nordic countries, Japan,... come on top of many rankings in terms of nicest place to live.
The correlation with lack of crime is simply perfect.
Cheers,
Bernard
That's fine, insofar as it goes, but how do you bring it about in lands where the majority - or a near-majority - of people live by tribal order: whose football team is dominant this season? Where many parade through the streets and even residential roads banging drums and playing hellish music badly, waving flags and wearing sashes and peeing onto people's lawns because they drank so much they can't contain it any longer? And anyway, why should some people own lawns if others can't? Obviously, they stole those lawns from us, the righteous people.
I don't think the first world is ready yet for sophisticated living. First we have to use our clubs and break heads; then, when we've done that, realised there are no more forests left from which to fashion new clubs, we can progress to the rubber tyre necklace and gasoline.
So advanced, yet so backwoods by nature.
;-)
Rob