In defence of ElM, he is doing a far better "help the poor" effort in Angola by stringing fibre around the place so they can connect to the cybersphere.
The best "help the poor" efforts are to draw them into the web of exchange of value. Angolans [the poor] provide the work and oil and land and laws which enable Huawei [the less poor] to supply and install mobile cyberspace designed by Qualcomm [even less poor] to enable Globalstar [guys with play money] to provide mobile cyberspace everywhere and pay me and other shareholders [a the pinnacle of existence] the profits which we then use to hire poor people to do even more good things.
It's a law of nature that the poor people benefit most from the process. Once I have eaten, I can't eat more and once I am clothed, it gets too hot to put more on. Working my way up Maslow's hierarchy of needs it becomes desirable to get the poor to be not poor and better able to join in the Cosmic Challenge - Us Against the Void.
Providing them with Globalstar, Qualcomm, Google, CDNA [cyber DNA genetic engineering], superconductor maglev vacuum transport and what have you enables them to do more and me with more profits to hire more people.
Hooray for ElM who is gradually seeing the value of Anglo VVV. He resists, while adopting the norms. They, like english lingua franca, are available to anyone who wants them, for no charge. Not even a small royalty.
The Amazing and Glorious British Empire brought half the world into VVV and the Cosmic Challenge, upgrading them from their barbarian ways. Unfortunately, with the Hun invading from the east and doing it again, and the British Disease and Karl Marx invading too with his ideas appealing to many, the British Empire pulled up the drawbridge and retreated to the banks of the murky and dirty Thames, leaving the local yokels to revert to their atavistic ways.
A few did not go back to the bad old ways but recognized the opportunity. Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia held the line. NZ slid and is still sliding. African countries went native - Idi Amin, Mugabe, and any number of criminals took over. India's bosses even tried to [stupidly] ditch the lingua franca [an excellent english word].
Noblesse oblige,
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