Quote: (03-18-2010 12:26 AM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:
As a wise man once said, "there are countries to make money and countries to spend money".
SA countries fall in the latter category. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it.
I would say that it's fortunate.
It seems that most countries that are set up for making money have a small contingent of people, and innumerable regulations / laws, that make living in that country shitty for the majority. The easier it is to make money, the less egalitarian the country seems to be.
The simple and artistic life seems to be easier led in countries that aren't set up for making money.
If there was no escape from the former type of country, and the life that that type of country dictates that we lead, that would be a sad thing.