SUS1501 Assignment 8 Semester 2 8 October 2023

Back at the Crossroads!

1. (YOU MUST WRITE NOTES ON THIS QUESTION) “Why do some people have to be miserably
poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who
don’t even have a piece of bread.” (Fidel Castro) My personal opinion on this statement, is most
closely described by:
a. Who cares what Castro said? He was an ideological dinosaur anyway.
b. Wealth and poverty are unrelated phenomena.
c. Well perhaps the rich should just stop all their charity and we’ll see where this leaves the
ungrateful poor.
d. Well on a simple technical level, the answer to this is poverty and wealth are both
relative so it’s just not possible for there to be someone rich without someone who is
relatively poor.