Quote Originally Posted by Stephen Biko View Post
Except that its undeniable that the standard of living for the entire country has vastly improved during the time so the reformers have been successful. If corruption was as absolute as you make it out to be we'd all be subsistence farmers or working 12 hour days 7 days a week in sweatshops.
People living in so called poverty today would be considered among the richest in the country when it was founded. Indoor plumbing, electricity, Tvs, cell phones, free medical care, free food of better quality than most were able to obtain unless they grew it themselves. All of this was merely imagination 200 years ago.