DislikedJEEPERS! What is this, the queens tea party? where do you come from to say such a stereotypical thing like that! WOWIE!
"I stay away from the poor" (little cough) "alfred, bring me another scone will you, and make it snappy"...
Imagine you were born in africa, no food, water or money as a result of corruption, colonisation and industry and the very people who are benefitting off your suffering says things like these...
80% of the world live on 20% of her resources... Yeah, I also hate the poor...Ignored
My homeland is in the Horn of Africa so yes I am African. What you don't understand about the economic stagnation within Africa and its root causes is that the governments have no link between the people and themselves. There are no institutions where the government organize to collect people's taxes instead they rely solely on the income from corporation that produce the natural resources to fill there Treasury departments.
As a result services don't improve and people are left with two options either try and scarp a living within this medieval environment or try getting into Europe somehow (student visa). To reduce poverty there has to be a program of logical sequence of events that lead to the desired result otherwise you will be wasting time & money.
Now i have lived in my homeland for sometime, when i returned in 2008. I help build a natural water wheel by a stable water stream. The productivity is noticed right away as machines do more work than man. The other local tribes got jealous and heated debates would ensue about how this surplus wealth shall be shared. It is not easy to convince medieval societies that it is better to share than to hoard. So yes they could not see the whole benefit only their small minds telling them what they are doing is right: a crude sense of loyalty.
Our beliefs are based on logic and the pursuit of clearity.