[Urbane Guerrilla]

DanaC, check something: we're wealthy, no? Now do we suffer at present from Dickensian conditions? We seem to have found safeguards, haven't we? And do they get in the way of becoming wealthy?

It's not remotely an assumption: we Americans are five percent of the world population and we are twenty percent of the globe's economy. We are walking, living, breathing proof that laissez-faire is the way to go -- and because of its free and libertarian nature, it does not compel us to be uniform business-drones, either. It's been working this way for roughly three centuries now. That's proof enough for this kid.