Haber-Bosch process, which enables modern agriculture: two German white men Classical physics, on which all modern construction techniques are based: Western European white men Modern textile manufacturing: British white men Telecommunications and computing, which enable your complaining: white men (and a white woman - Hedy Lamarr - for frequency hopping) Have other groups contributed? Of course. But in terms of global alleviation of poverty, white men top the charts. Progress does not come primarily from good will and generosity of spirit. It comes from the production and deployment of new knowledge. All other improvements are mere transfers. Only knowledge grows the total amount of human wealth. If people like this got their wish, if they managed to tear down Western civilization and loot its corpse, they would sit in the ashes until they starved, all the while wondering when the magic that made us rich would descend upon them.