But they aren't. Humanity is a social failure. The number of people who go without food, shelter, and basic healthcare in this world is pretty staggering.
Historically speaking, those people haven't been the main engines of innovation. The well educated and necessity-fulfilled crowd has apparently lost some of their competitive appetite. China and India should close the education gap in a decade or so and things should get interesting.
And that somehow makes it better? Can you say with a straight face there's a good reason that anybody in this country should be homeless or hungry when we've spent a trillion dollars fighting enemies who weren't really enemies in the past decade?