Poverty is the natural beginning state of the human condition.
So is being a caveman. I think a government's purpose in advanced civilization should be to avoid going back to those primitive conditions.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
