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Yeah, and a space program IIRC.

But my point is that impoverished countries can stay impoverished almost indefinitely. All over Africa there are countries that will never get any better unless if they're formally colonized - and colonialism is a bad word so Europeans prefer to maintain slow-burn civil wars and pretend they have no involvement...
I think the question that a lot of people really don't understand is:

> How would you like to live in a world full of people like you?

Europeans and Americans like living with their own, and they really struggle to imagine a universe where one wouldn't.

3rd worlders are typically clambering to escape living with their own, and they have a lot of mental gymnastics going on to explain their actions to themselves without concluding that they are in fact repulsive.

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