Morocco is poor because the rich keep everything for themselves...no assistance for education or health care...taxi drivers make ten dollars a day and must support a family...three million young people unemployed...no point in getting an advanced education because there are no jobs...where are the jobs? they go to the children of rich families, those who have studied abroad or who can afford to bribe the hiring officials...patriarchy works this way: the patron keeps the profit, while those who work for him get next to nothing...the cronies of the royal family are the drug mafia...democracy is needed but impossible...legions of young men shine shoes in the street...in the desert the village girls are desperate to sell trinkets...in the courts there is no due process, the judge has the sole authority to try and sentence, judgments are made in the name of the king...corruption and cronyism everywhere..."tourist police" and the danger of being seen as a false guide: a young Moroccan accompanying a foreigner in the streets could be thrown in jail...the pushy behavior of police when dealing with crowds, and the often edgy feel of a Moroccan crowd as if waiting for a spark to set them off...which is the cause and which is the symptom?...or are both symptoms of a population where so many are young and desperate, while for tourists and wealthy natives it is a paradise?