There are a whole lot of people making judgements based purely on numbers, but poverty when you see it isn't just numbers. Even analytical folks like Bill Gates will admit to their stark ignorance toward what poverty actually is until having seen it first hand. There's no substitute for seeing what is actually happening.

I agree talk is important and having this dialog isn't meaningless, but there is quite a lot of pseudo-intellectualism and general disconnectedness where people with power are more concerned with the next step in their career rather than the roles of the office they're actually occupying. Or some notion that the ideas of protecting the ideas of net-neutrality in the west are some sort of modern day "white man's burden." If I needed to fix my roof today and you told you I couldn't have just a hammer and screwdriver because they can't separated from the whole toolbox, I would be heartbroken.

While openly violating net-neutrality isn't going to benefit any politician looking for votes for their next seat in public office, the reality is that net-neutrality has been violated all over the world to the tremendous benefit of the people. It's important to note that, while net-neutrality is mostly upheld in the US, the US suffers plenty of blind spots that result from the biases in general news media, social media, and reporting.

Also, to address your original point, implementing nothing will also have massive issues for decades. Your commentary falls under the same heading as the people intellectualizing the problems without having a stake in it. I don't know where you live or anything about you, but go check out rural India some time and find out what real poverty is. If you've never seen it with your own eyes, you honestly have no idea what it is.