All of us are masters of our lives. The choices we make are for ourselves and we should not blame others for our choices, nor expect others to support us along those choices. ( I can hope that if I am in a precarious situation that someone could and would help me BUT I have no right to demand it. )

Too often with the natives there is a culture of dependence instead of self determination.

The reason I post here along these lines of thought is because we as Noront investors ( applicable to other investments in the Ring ) are being asked to fund the development not only of the infrastructures that will be to the benefit of the locals but will be asked to fund the communities themselves, directly or indirectly, in the form of some king of royalty.