Thank you.
The problem is that tools like Angthoron have bought the lie that technological progress is enabled by corporatism. He won't call it that, but that's what the free market has turned into - and it necessarily must do so as soon as you have free trade and free capital.
Which is funny considering that the greatest discoveries in science that have so far born the greatest fruit / affected the biggest changes have all been made in the ~17-19th century and were funded by either public institutions or private individuals. Since then it was only evolutionary progress, and since decades folks are now hung up on string theory without any further developement.
That you don't live in a dung hut, Angthoron, and instead can have 2 cars, 3 telecommunication gadgets and 2 fridges full of meat has not so much to do with technological progress and the "enlightenment", but rather with good old imperialism / extortion exerted on whole nations that are even just a little lower in the food chain than your local homeless guy or dead old man found stinking in his basement after 2 weeks because no one cared for him. Only that today - thanks to your brainwashing media and reeducation centers called schools - it comes packed in more shiny words like
"nation building", "spreading democracy", "liberalism", "free trade" etc. Today there are probably more people working in slave-owner relationships with exceptionally poor standards of living than ever before. Certainly not less.
Only that the actors today are not so much the nation states anymore, but your beloved corporations. That's also why nation states are getting abolished and Europe is getting swarmed with alien cultures at the moment. Can't have that silly nation state concept anymore
when the game is called monopoly.
And you are just a pawn in that game, too. Only with you, they need to take it slowly. Can't just send murder squads or "freedom fighters" against your interests that easily. You are the frog in the soon-to-be-boiling water though.
TL;DR: You can visit McDonald's's drive-in with 2 cars simultainously and munch on your double bacon bullshit while checking your "tweets" on your latest gadget because ~ 2/3 of the ppl in the world are living in those same dung huts you thought were a thing of the past.
Here's a pro tip: Try figuring out what would happen if the Chinese or India would suddenly decide to share a piece of that place in the sun with you after they have lived in a shitty condition relative to your standard of living long enough now and decide to
also get ~ 0,8 cars / 1 folk.
Hahahaha! There wouldn't even be enough metal to go around. See you in the mud-hut again, buddy!