Increasing wealth and standard of living means more consumers, more people not living off of the land. More people taking deals from the US or China, losing the

Increasing wealth and standard of living means more consumers, more people not living off of the land. More people taking deals from the US or China, losing their sovereignty and self determination, becoming more politically unstable due to outside intervention, leading to wars, disputes, etc. Poverty is all relative, I seriously consider if our intervention due to naive altruism really helps or hurts the people there.