We Still Haven't Figured This Out Yet!

    I was once presented with the idea that without evil, good would not exist.  It is the absence of evil that allows us to understand something as good.  I see this philosophy running our society and world in many ways.  For instance, some people see great success and wealth even as others remain in conditions of extreme poverty.  We haven't figured out a way to eliminate the evil while maintaining the good.
    It seems that success comes with side-effects.  Even as we progress and develop incredible technology, there is always the fallout.  We can create cars that park themselves and wear computers on our heads, yet we can't manage to stop the 46.5 million people living in poverty in the United States (world hunger.org).  Is it moral to continue our technological advancement when so many people live without their basic needs met? Maybe the only advancements that should continue are those in medicine.
   In my opinion, we haven't yet figured out how to get our priorities straight.  It could be true that with good there is evil, but that doesn't mean we should help further the reality of this statement.  We haven't figured out how to make all citizens care more about those dying from hunger than the release of the newest iPhone.  For every apple ad you've seen in the past month, imagine it replaced with one of an organization working to interrupt the poverty cycle.  Let's use the brilliant minds creating the iPhone 7 to instead create a model that will greatly decrease the number of Americans living in poverty.