1) There will always be some people who will live in mud huts. Do I need to explain why? 2) Probably the biggest improvements in quality of life on Earth came

1) There will always be some people who will live in mud huts. Do I need to explain why? 2) Probably the biggest improvements in quality of life on Earth came because of America (North, mostly). Those countries exists today because extremely big resources were invested by the kings in Europe to cross the ocean at a time when standards of living there were unimaginably bad. They could have given the money to the poor instead.