Of course not all poor people are lazy, but many are. I never said *all* poor people are lazy. The qualifier I used was "many". There are tons of jobs in America. Some people just decide to idle around and do nothing with their lives and live on welfare. These people are just leeches. Look dude, in order to provide financial incentive/support to the "little guys", the government should be making some good $$$. In case of America, it was already rich even before the world wars, but not to the level seen thereafter. The whole cotton industry in the South. The industrial boom up North in the 19th century. Even to this day the South is heavily agriculture-oriented, while most technological innovations come from the North/North-West. " By building roads etc" Well, seems to me like most Nepali road-building projects come from international sources like Japan. Sure, Nepal could do better in utilizing the 39 billion in GDP or whatever we make on an annual basis. I don't argue with that point. But I don't believe in making life easy for free loaders. If you wanna make money, work your butt off. The government may want to provide incentives in some shape or form, but people who're not working shouldn't be leeching off the government. Nepal's economy keeps spiralling downwards. Just imagine how much of a burden it would be on the government if we started distributing $$$ to lazy bums? Things like welfare and food stats and government handouts *should* come *only* after a country develops. Before that happens, I think the $$$ are just wasted. " there is no balance, people will be ready to even give life for money, because they won't have enough to eat" The money could go to building a better schooling system. Maybe, we need a good public schooling system. Free for everyone. Then again, this would be a money sink. Maybe we need better hospitals. Better roads. Apart from that, I say the government should be providing incentives to corporations. They're the ones who create jobs, not the government. Just make life easier for the corporations. Make sure foreign investors would want to invest in Nepal. For that, a stable government is required. I don't think we should even be talking about "minimum wage" and benefits. For one thing, the idea of minimum wage in America is total and utter failure because of the fact that it only provides incentive for the corporations to hire illegal immigrants and pay them under the table. That's how they save $$$: pay illegals under the table. In a country like Nepal, where nobody follows any laws, any such new rules won't really be followed. It's a big problem in a country like Nepal. Trust me on that. "The governemnt of china controls the media. Many chinese don't even know about tiananmen square event." Of course I know that. They even ban web pages they deem to be against China's interests. They have no freedom of the press. I am 100% for democracy, and for free market, and capitalism. No frigging way will I ever support Maobadis or for that matter Royalists. To make another point, they only reformed the Chinese economy. China is still politically communist. China is definitely growing, whether you like it or not. It has been predicted that in 25 years, China, along with India(China will be more powerful) will take over USA in terms of GDP. Will there be poor people in these countries? Hell yeah, and lots of them. However, the point is that the rich-poor divide will subside as a country develops. It will in China as well. And in Brazil too. I mean Russia's rich-poor divide wasn't as bad in the USSR days as it is today, but was Russia faring better. I don't think so. Today, for example, due to the economic boom, Moscow is the most expensive city on the planet, even transcending Tokyo and New York. So yeah, capitalism works wonders. Plus, I think socialism only works in a homogeneous society. The Swedes are already whining about it. Seriously. Don't forget about all those French people who died due to all the head a few years ago. They don't have a good healthcare system in France, compared to America. I mean, even America's healthcare system is a big fat joke. But France is no model either. Europeans tend to be more socialistic than Americans. Alright, I typed this in about 15 minutes. Ignore all typos.