62 richest people has as much money as poorest 3.5 billion humans

[hershel_layton]

MTZehvor said:

hershel_layton said:

Of course it'll take long if we wanted to fix the issues in undeveloped countries. However, think about the religious countries- give them some education, internet, etc, and think how many of them will stop resorting to their superstition beliefs. There can be potential for the production needed to become a developed country. I mean, let's face it. No matter how many times a person from Africa reads their Bible, it won't solve anything. Though, some education is what's needed to make actual change.

 

What you're saying has been tried before; many, many times over. Attempts have been made by Western governments, charities, the UN, missionaries, non profits, etc. There are two major roadblocks in the way, however.

Number 1 is actually getting the funding for these programs to the right people. Giving funding to governments rarely works, as, more often than not, the majority of the money will simply be taken by less than reputable "public servants." You can try and bring the supplies over yourself, but for things like education, that's extremely difficult to do. You need to either relocate teachers from Western countries (who also need to be well versed in the culture of the country they'll be teaching in, and believe me, there aren't many of those around), or train people to be teachers from the nation in question. The latter is what most attempts have tried, and it's extremely time consuming, extremely costly, and rarely successful, because the schools are still poorly funded, and because...

Number 2: Everything's interconnected. Simply providing better schools, for instance, in an underdeveloped country actually does very little because simply being able to go to school is often considered a luxury. Living conditions are, obviously, awful, many kids have to walk miles to school, and their ability to study at home is severly limited. Lower class American children, who are considered to oftentimes be incapable of escaping their circumstances due to their poor start in life, are far better off than these kids. Improving the schooling won't do much until the entire society is improved. Roads need to be built, easy transportation to school and back needs to be provided, basic utilities need to be installed so that parents/kids spend less time doing chores and more time helping their kids learn/study. And there's no way to do that without going through the governments of the nations involved, which, as mentioned before, are usually highly corrupt and unlikely to actually work with any sort of project.

I suppose it's basically a "we're screwed" thing. Brings me back to the original point i made before- I was worried that nothing would change.