can it get any worse?

I was reading http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. I found it very difficult to read, I had to stop quite a few times before I managed to make my way through the two page article. The descriptions were crippling and painful to read. Its beyond me to even imagine fighting in such a situation. For the people concerned they are suffering (do we call this suffering) for no direct fault of theirs. From being breadbasket of the world, the place has been successfully transformed (yes, part of this transformation is intentional and done by only a few people in power, but then again those are the ones who count) to a death trap. Its not fair, life is hardly ever fair. In one part of the world we witness a 700b bailout, while a few thousand miles away people are struggling to get along with $1-2/week. What's the value of money in a country where the currency has failed. Does anyone care? There's two broad possibilities: everyone gets along in livable conditions with some doing better than others, or a few gets everything in the world living amidst all the glitter and joy money can buy, and for the rest -- survival of the fittest. Even animals live in much better conditions, they get a fairer shot at life. All we do is think how bad the situation is for some (some being determined by where you are born, doomed at birth), but really can we even guess what some have to go through. We get only one life, so not really that surprising that people fight on to survive just hoping that tomorrow ...