I don't quite understand the example. To whom is it not an asset? To whom is it useful? If something can not be measured in money then obviously it can not be traded in money or it is not a scarce good (air can not be measured in money because it is not economized). Finally I don't see the connection to capitalism, which is private ownership and control. Certainly under socialized systems you easily disregard various assets because of mismanagement.Under capitalism people are poor because they do not have anything of value to exchange with, not even sympathy. I exchange a service for money, some people exchange goods for money, the poor supposedly have nothing to exchange. Under capitalism (and the lack of welfare) such poor individuals have the GREATEST potential for growth. Giving such a person the ability to be self-sufficiency is far more profitable than anything else I can imagine. Of course such loans are illegal and compete with government welfare programs which merely cover such potential and give the poor the undeserved characterization of being lazy.
As for being from the 3rd world (which I am) that has to do with the economic interventionist policies of their respective governments, not to mention the drug war policy of the US. I don't see what that has to do with capitalism, except that if drugs and all goods were freely traded such problems would not exist.
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