[quote name='mis0']World hunger and poverty can never be achieved, especially with the huge income gaps between the richest nations and poorest nations. The only way for everyone to live without hunger and poverty is for the rich to constantly spoon feed the poor. The western capitalist countries are the cause of third world and less than third world countries that exist today. Globalization is a bitch, especially for those who cannot reap the benefits.[/QUOTE]
Complete nonsense. Nations develop of their own will with governence that encorages improvement. I defy you to show an example of a nation that remained undeveloped because it suited Western desires. The exact oppsite has often been the motivation for brutal changes imposed on subject nations, especially under Communist regmes such as the Soviets and Red Chinese. Their vassals were of little use if undeveloped, so they'd go in and impose whatever they saw fit as having value for the dominant nation.
Another problem has been those seeking to help undeveloped nations without full consideration of the consequences. Much of the disasters in Africa came in the wake of the Peace Corp encouraging populations to radically change their way of life to approaches that turnedout to be completely unviable for the geography in question. For all their primitiveness, the level of misery would have been far less if those people had been left alone decades earlier.
Think a little. Third world status was effectively global until just a few centuries ago. When the nations of the West began enjoying greatly improved lives as they developed, there was nothing whatsoever stopping others from noting what was happening and how it was achieved, then implementing it for themselves. Nobody had a monopoly on personal liberty and rule of law, the two most important elements of Western development. Likewise, places with lousy resources and little in the way of mineral wealth managed to become quite wealthy. They didn't go to better off countries and steal their stuff as their primary method of self-improvement. Humans have been stealing each other lunch money as long as they have been humans but the general condition of humanity didn't get much better just few thousand years and then accelerated greatly in the last three centuries.
The primary source of wealth is not from a hole in the ground. It's from between the ears. The imagination that creates new things is the greater creator of new wealth that has ever existed. When Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created VisiCalc, drawing upon the pen and paper tools of accounting and adding the capability for quickly testing different scenarios via a personal computer, they created a multi-billion dollar product category out of thin air. This, combined with an environment that allowed them to profit from the sale of their creation, created a huge new piece of wealth and provided a tool that in turn allowed others to better manage and grow their own wealth.
