@Nincompoop Did you know that there are already places throughout the world which would already be self-sufficient, but organizations in first world countries like the World Bank actually drains and destroys them?

For example, there are many places in Africa which already generate all the electrical energy they need and then some, but the World Bank forces them to send it elsewhere. Same goes for all of those conflict minerals mined by slave labor used to build our fancy tech, especially from the Congo. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe is heading towards self-sufficiency with geothermal energy, supplying all their energy needs and their neighbors', while American oilmen claim it's too difficult to do in the US. (Even though the area running along the eastern edge of California is one of the best spots on Earth found by Google for geothermal energy extraction.) We could have abandoned traditional oil and gas by now ourselves with renewable sources, including geothermal and biodiesel. But the greed behind the petrodollar is too influential.

First world countries aren't just crippling others, they're crippling themselves. All in the interest of short term profits. The whole attack on net neutrality is another recent example of that. Sometimes, there's barely any (or no) infrastructure in certain areas.

As a more relevant example to tech being donated, most of the USA barely recycles any of our computers, and dumps millions of the broken/old ones onto other countries that can't process them, instead of creating more jobs and infrastructure to process unusable ones, reuse the recovered technical nutrients for new products, and provide usable products to those who need them. I am keenly aware of this, because I've been involved in just about the only major dedicated program for providing computers to the needy in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area for 8 years now. There was plenty provided through government and corporate programs in the past, but now that they've been slashed, there's next to nothing available. Charity is the only thing left now for that field.

And that's happening in the area of the nation's capital of supposedly the most powerful and wealthy nation in the world.