Each person in those nations are seen as an expense. Since when do you feed the expense column? It's like raising goats or other livestock. Lot's of potential use, so you let them breed and let them feed off your patures. At some point the number who feed exceeds the passive method of sustaining them and intensive feedings of costly stored feeds needs to be done, or you send half your goats to slaughter if you keep using the same primitive schemes in production. People are no different. We just have the luxury of having social systems which are extremely cognisant of productivity and it's vital role. Capitalism has done more to improve the quality of humanity than one can ever imagine. Sure it's full of Dickens-like tales, but such tales mean nothing to say those unfortunate enough to live in the Congo or Zimbabwe, or the Sudan, or North Korea....or Chad......etc...
We've been doing this since the LBJ era.
You can say that again and again. Wouldn't it be nice if the media would pick up on it?