[Billy_bob_bob]

It's even more than all of that. To have wealth (i.e. food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medicine, entertainment etc. etc.) you have to have a social and legal infrastructure that allows for the creation and protection of wealth. Without said infrastructure you have nothing. If you have a society that says "what you have should belong to me" you will soon have a society where everybody has nothing.

The thing that nobody wants to talk about is that in order to have this social and legal infrastructure you need to have a population that is capable of understanding abstract concepts like "property rights" and "titles" and "due process", concepts that are pretty much lost on a nation with an average I.Q. below 85.

In other words, if you are too dumb to be able to understand what it takes to create or at least obtain and then retain wealth then you are doomed to eternal poverty.

[happygrl]

concepts that are pretty much lost on a nation with an average I.Q. below 85.

Sounds like our country.

But seriously, Zimbabwe troubles are not for lack of brainpower, nor are most country's troubles attributable to their average I.Q.

It is lack of integrity and the consequent corruption that are the cause of the mess, no different from bad governments everywhere.

These are moral and spiritual problems, not I.Q. problems.