>>>It is very unfortunate that this be so. If, for example, combating the World's hunger would be top priority, with hundreds of billions a year spent on that, then THAT would be the breeding ground for new inventions.
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>>That would be idea. But many third world countries are run by rich greedy corrupt people who have no idea what being poor is and even worse, they don't care.
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>Sorry to break the bad news for you, but so are many 1st and 2nd world countries. And they aren't beyond suspicion of installing the compliant guys in the 3rd world as rulers.
"Aren't beyond suspition" is a nice understatement; it is well-known that military dictatorships all over Latin America (some 20 or 30 years ago) were set up by the United States. Just search for the "Plan Cóndor" for details.
The details were learned much later; what is currently going on is, well, subject of speculation for now.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
