If only. I was enraged by George Monbiot saying, "If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire." From the post:
If in most of Africa in the last half-century the probable, or, Dear God, the permitted, result of the hard work and enterprise of women - or men - had been a modest increase in wealth, and not, as it mostly was, the expropriation of whatever you had gained and a chance to be murdered as a hoarder or class enemy by whatever Derg or other bunch of socialist thugs was calling itself the government that week, why, then Africa might have thrown off poverty the way Taiwan and South Korea did.
posted by Natalie at 5:00 PM
