Disclaimer: I don't want anybody to read my comment with their emotions but with common sense, I was once very poor living without electricity and water
The main problem is if we all had our basic needs covered, there would be 50 billion people in the time frame of 30 years and 50 billion people on this planet is a path to extinction of human race. Poverty can be solved by 5 people from the top of the financial chain, but realistically it's not good long-term.
I know what you are trying to say, but what does that mean...that we should leave this child in Africa to starve to death, is that child's life less important than the one who lives in wealth? Are we really going to except an elimination system?
Though extinction of a human race is another topic to discuss :))
Yea it's a very hard subject because emotionally I feel the same way and I'm all for building them schools, free health centers and what not but when we look the big picture of our planet... we're enough of parasites as we are. Factories, cars, garbage... Now imagine 2,3,...,10x more of us humans :)
Considering the way we treat each other and the way we treat our planet, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to speed up the final countdown :)
Who knows what future brings :D