ideally, the very rich could subsidize the very poor. What a wonderful world it would be if that happened so long as no one fell into patterns that would encourage a more covert type of neo-slavery. But celebrities love their Prada; the middle-class loves the mall and the poor are too busy trying to keep their lives together to worry about the destitute. David is a child of devastation. War, corruption, an arid climate, hunger, disease ... these are African realities. He won the lottery.