"The Pill" to the third world was hunger and malaria, environmental factors pushing against population growth until those regions would be able to develop their own mass farming and their own resistances to those issues, bettering society though neighbor to neighbor teaching and an innovative spirit to grow and become better. Then the West got so good at farming food for itself that it just started spending massive amounts of energy to grow even more of to ship across the ocean on freighters, and the West finished researching its own diseases and ailments that it now focuses on curing diseases in every country around the clock.
Why would you, a 24 year old man in africa, smartest of your town, spend your days looking at your own blood under a 30 dollar microscope in the coolest room in your house, when 200iq gigabrains from Japan and Switzerland and Canada and Argentina can scan the quarks of every atom for one of your sickle cells and tell you exactly the solution you were going to figure out and pass on to your brothers and sisters how you got the solution. And you can't hope to grow enough carrots and cabbage and potatoes with your ox driven plow when John Deere has a gpu in every barn across Kansas and Nebraska and Missouri and Arkansas. Why be the brightest mind in your radius anyways, the UN will feed you and give you new shoes.
"The Pill" to the third world was hunger and malaria, environmental factors pushing against population growth until those regions would be able to develop their own mass farming and their own resistances to those issues, bettering society though neighbor to neighbor teaching and an innovative spirit to grow and become better. Then the West got so good at farming food for itself that it just started spending massive amounts of energy to grow even more of to ship across the ocean on freighters, and the West finished researching its own diseases and ailments that it now focuses on curing diseases in every country around the clock.
Why would you, a 24 year old man in africa, smartest of your town, spend your days looking at your own blood under a 30 dollar microscope in the coolest room in your house, when 200iq gigabrains from Japan and Switzerland and Canada and Argentina can scan the quarks of every atom for one of your sickle cells and tell you exactly the solution you were going to figure out and pass on to your brothers and sisters how you got the solution. And you can't hope to grow enough carrots and cabbage and potatoes with your ox driven plow when John Deere has a gpu in every barn across Kansas and Nebraska and Missouri and Arkansas. Why be the brightest mind in your radius anyways, the UN will feed you and give you new shoes.