The issue there is, in the process of not getting f--ed by a US corporation are they not getting f--ed by their own government?<p>There are a whole lot of people making judgements based purely on numbers, but poverty when you see it isn&#x27;t just numbers. Even analytical folks like Bill Gates will admit to their stark ignorance toward what poverty actually is until having seen it first hand. There&#x27;s no substitute for seeing what is actually happening.<p>I agree talk is important and having this dialog isn&#x27;t meaningless, but there is quite a lot of pseudo-intellectualism and general disconnectedness where people with power are more concerned with the next step in their career rather than the roles of the office they&#x27;re actually occupying. Or some notion that the ideas of protecting the ideas of net-neutrality in the west are some sort of modern day &quot;white man&#x27;s burden.&quot; If I needed to fix my roof today and you told you I couldn&#x27;t have just a hammer and screwdriver because they can&#x27;t separated from the whole toolbox, I would be heartbroken.<p>While openly violating net-neutrality isn&#x27;t going to benefit any politician looking for votes for their next seat in public office, the reality is that net-neutrality has been violated all over the world to the tremendous benefit of the people. It&#x27;s important to note that, while net-neutrality is mostly upheld in the US, the US suffers plenty of blind spots that result from the biases in general news media, social media, and reporting.<p>Also, to address your original point, implementing nothing will also have massive issues for decades. Your commentary falls under the same heading as the people intellectualizing the problems without having a stake in it. I don&#x27;t know where you live or anything about you, but go check out rural India some time and find out what real poverty is. If you&#x27;ve never seen it with your own eyes, you honestly have no idea what it is.