Originally Posted by JoeBob
...I suspect that they would find the prospect of being unable to share in great wealth a much more objectionable prospect than sharing in great poverty as they do now....


Fidel Castro has an estimated net worth of $900 million. It doesn't look like they've objected to it too much so far.

http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/politician/president/fidel-castro-net-worth/

We don't need to make the same mistakes we've made in the past with regard to nation building. We americans tend to think that all the locals need is a helping hand and they'll rise up and do the rest. That's naive and foolish, see where it got us in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nobody in Cuba is going to stand up to Fidel and Raul as long as they're alive, and their successors are likely to be just as brutal. The gene that allows them to respond to market forces or economic self interests tends to get trumped by the gene that doesn't want a bullet to the back of the head.