alphaQuad <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> Solving world hunger is not such a
> difficult accomplishment.

  Actually it is. The so-called "rich countries" (ie. mostly the so-called
"western countries" as well as other rich countries such as Japan) are not
rich by chance. They are not rich just because they happen to live in a
place with a fountain of abundance. These cultures did not form in one
night. It took centuries of development for these cultures to form, often
through hard work, education and civilization.

  You can't just pour money and abundance onto a different culture and
expect it to become a western culture in a decade. It requires a lot of
education and radical changes in the cultural, economical and political
infrastructures. (Not to talk that the current "politically correct" fad
is that trying to convert another culture into a "western culture" is
politically incorrect and a bad thing, and thus there's a lot of negative
hype surrounding this whole issue...)

  Sure, there may be other ways for a civilization to become self-sufficient
than converting it into a western society, but that would require even more
time than just teaching them what the western world already knows. And it
certainly will not happen by simply pouring money onto them.

  Believing that world famine can be easily solved with money is naive.
Money solves famine in the short run, but it doesn't solve the *problem*,
only its symptoms, and only for as long as there is money.

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                                                          - Warp

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