However, it is 1997 and the world operates on poverty, AIDS, sex, drugs, crime, death, murder, violence, and politics. If there were none of the above we would not exist. Presidents get elected because they say they can drop or cut the rate of those things. As long as there are crackheads and fiends, drugs will be sold and people will kill over a street corner. With sex comes AIDS and with AIDS comes death.
Poverty is the lower part of the evolutionary chain of man.
There is always going to be someone who has more than the other, or will sell more drugs. Some will always have more money. The world cannot be perfect but what you can do is live life to the fullest and make your private world perfect. Achieve your goals. You never know the value of freedom until it's taken.