Sorry. I got cut off there....was going to say "PROFITABLE for the privileged few."

Must have hit the "submit" button or something...

Either that or (gasp!) them guys in the black suits are onto me! :-)

Quite seriously, though...a sane family decides what is actually needed for the good of all the family members, and then does it. If a family is motivated primarily by greed for money, rather than by love, then it is capable of any atrocity, and will easily sell its own children into slavery. A society is a large extended family, and the same measure of responsibility should apply to a society. That's socialism. Without it you are back in the Dark Ages, where the rich and well-armed rule the roost, and the peasants survive as long as they are considered useful...if they're lucky enough not to be in the way.

- LH