(Doesn't matter that millions of lives will be saved or transformed for the better or that some of the money will be rolled back into research to help more people.)
If mankind evolved in Africa and spread to the 4 corners from there shouldn't Africa be much more developed than the rest of the world?
There is a theory that it was those who left the comfortable, evolved for niche that had to face challenges that made higher intelligence a greater survival advantage, so those who left Africa and faced a variety of new environments to which they had to adapt culturally became smarter.
Hence the average IQ for blacks around 85 versus 100 for whites and 105 for Asians.