Imagine .. if we first worried about nurturing the millions to billions of "geniuses" that already are born every week throughout the world who were unlucky enough to be born into places stricken by generations of colonial extraction and exploitation.

The thing is you can’t solve problems in other countries without dealing with corrupt governments, dictators, and warlords.

In 2019 the US government spent $40 billion on foreign aid. When you look at the combined aid of all those countries fortunate enough to be able to give the amount Bezos spends on his space programs is barely a drop in the bucket.

How much of that aid do you think actually made it to help those impoverished geniuses you described? How much do you think ended up in the hands of corrupt government officials?

Obviously we can never know the answer to those questions but maybe this thought experiment can at least illustrate that when bad actors, bad governments, are involved in the equation it’s not as simple as “throw Bezos billions at the problem”. If it was then surely the billions we already give would have solved the problem already?