RE: Elaboration of the Research Objectives: A proposal based on Cartesian thought.
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Last nigh I was watching some guy (who I assume was some sort of authority figure) talk about how the leadership in Venezuela was syphoning oil money (that was intended to help people) and lining there own pockets.
The past few days I have been thinking about how it is smart for people to realize that the hearts of mankind are deceitful (Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?) So a person should expect that 'left to his own devices' a person is not naturaly going to give you a fair deal. In the following article I attempted to point out mankinds natural depravity
https://steemit.com/thanksgivingstory/@captaintj/happy-thanksgiving-thanksgiving-story
My mind started to think 'how can Venezuelans recover from the theft?' Some people might assume that the best path foreward is to send a check to every person (to personally appriate the money) But consider this: if you were to visit 100 people and give each person $1,000,000 proably within 6 months about 15 of thoes people would be broke (poor) about 75 of thoes people would comfortably be getting by, 5 people would have been able to maintain there wealth and or add to it, and about 2-3 people will probably have around 90% of the money.
Corruption is a scourge. I think I remember that Venezuela occupies the first place in several measurements related to this problem: