Weird
So by that logic, the cost of GWII could have put 700,000 American kids through Harvard...
Or provided pretty good housing, food, clothing, etc, to 1,000,000 US children for 10 years or so.
Or saved and improved the lives of 10,000,000 children around the world for 10 years.
There are a lot of "poor, angry, and desperate" people in the United States of Amurica, too - who is it that wants to keep them that way? Oh, right, in the US it's their own fault for not participating fully in the capitalist system.