Perhaps I could have a discussion with Ms. Riseboro.
According to stats I've seen, from 1990 to 2015, the number of people lifted out of poverty has been close to one billion, 650 million in China and India. Of those, 900 million went all the way to the middle class: they were poor in 1990 and middle class by 2015. I want your point of view on that.
To me, it makes sense, then, to keep doing the things that gave us that success, that created that success. Wouldn't we want to do the things that have worked in the past to erase poverty for one billion people in one generation? Maybe I'm not seeing the picture the way you do, but maybe you could comment on that.