What is the alternative? Get stuck in the old days and never improve so the talentless lazy people continue living their lazy lives?

Yes, unless you are proposing some kind of way to get rid of people unfortunate to live in such places.

What is your proposed solution then? If an individual working at a company is no longer useful, is it the company's responsibility to nurture and take care of this person? Imagine you have a small company and one employee gets money from you for no reason, and you can't improve this person because he/she has no will to do it themselves. Or is it the government's responsibility? If so, it is socialism you are after.