I think that our fundamental point of disagreement has to do with investment.  Given a field full of wheat, you want to eat it all.  I think you have to reserve some of it, because even when the winter is bad and some people are starving, come springtime you have to be able to plant _something_ or else everybody will starve.  This difference manifests in our approaches to social problems.  You want to meet someone&#x27;s immediate need, like adding oil to a car with leaky seals, while I want to address the underlying problem---fixing the broken engine, or even better, replacing the broken engine with something that works a thousand times better.<p>That&#x27;s OK, because in reality, we need both short-term (just feed the guy!) and long-term (fix the engine!) solutions to the problems that beset our world.