Famous leftist: Entrepreneurial capitalism of more help to poor people

From The Blaze by way of Ace of Spades HQ 

“Bono, the lead singer of U2, said that he has realized the redistribution of resources won't help poor people the way that commerce and entrepreneurial capitalism will help them.

“The iconic musician and humanitarian made the comments during an interview with the New York Times published Monday. He talked about starting out as a left-wing activist but eventually realizing that capitalism helps the most poor people.

"’I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true,’ Bono explained.

"’There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism,’ he added. "I spend a lot of time in countries all over Africa, and they’re like, eh, we wouldn’t mind a little more globalization actually. I would point out that there has been a lot of progress over the years.’"

https://www.theblaze.com/news/bono-poverty-capitalism-commerce-jobs?utm_medium=push&utm_source=pushnami

Leftists see Third World peoples as did 19th century writers, “noble savages,” needing little to bring happiness and contentment. Not for the poor are comfortable houses, air conditioning, or heat from anything but wood fires. Mobile phones are for so-called civilized countries, as are computers and all other devises that make civilization civilized. And, of course, no one should have electricity produced by anything other than the natural wind or sun.