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They could do a heart transplant in JoBurg, but in tribal areas, kids died of diarrhea and kwashiorkor.

Yeah, after all those African tribes invented heart transplants and built some of the best hospitals in the world. Oh wait a minute, they didn't do any of that.

I guess your philosophy is that if someone anywhere works hard and provides something better for his family and friends that he's obligated to give it away for free to everyone. There's a name for people who think like you, "communist".

It never ceases to amaze me that people living in third world countries whose ancestors never built anything worth noticing feel they're entitled to everything ever produced anywhere in the world by anyone.

There's a name for people who think like you, "communist".

And there's a name for people like you: "capitalist pig, oppressor of the proletariat/people of color"

SA's racist policies did everything they could to subvert the free market, by taking wealth from blacks and transferring it to whites. Defending that dictatorship as a bulwark of free-market economics is a load of hooey. (I never thought I'd actually call someone a capitalist pig, and actually mean it...)

"It never ceases to amaze me that people living in third world countries whose ancestors never built anything worth noticing feel they're entitled to everything ever produced anywhere in the world by anyone."

In the late '60s the father of a friend was brought to South Africa by a prospective employer. This guy was more of an Archie Bunker type than "bleeding heart liberal". He was revolted by the normal everyday treatment of the blacks by their white "masters" (Master was, he said, the form of address black employees were required to use when responding to their white employers). He said he couldn't wait to get out of there.

Later in the early '80s a close friend went to South Africa as a missionary (again, no liberal) she said the whites had sown the seeds of their own destruction. It was not only the men who went to the cities to work but also the women. The people left in areas reserved for blacks were those too old or sick to work and children. She told a story of a white women who was present when her black maid was informed that her child had died (back in the black homeland). The maid cried and the white women said "Oh look, she cries just like us."

What you fail to grasp is that the blacks in South Africa were not fat and lazy sitting with their hands out demanding the fruits of the labor of others, but the right to live with their families and some of the fruit their labor had produced.