The end of the universe itself?

I've read so much into this, that I'm convinced that it's relatively safe. But what gets me is, I also read something that said that the average person won't see much in the way of results from this. It cost $10 billion to build and yet the average person won't see much from it. They say it will help scientists gain a better understanding of the universe and what not. I have nothing against that, but we have so many people in poverty right now, people starving in other parts of the world, people that can barely afford enough food and gas to last a week, yet they spend 10billion to build this machine to do what? Find out more about the universe? I think it could have waited a bit longer. Sorry if I missed something here, but from what I've read, thats what I've come up with. If anyone knows what else this thing can do for us, feel free to say something, I'd really like to know.

You could argue the same thing about other things. How much money is spent on sports or various forms of entertainment annually? Apart from a brief moment of entertainment, how does this benefit people?

In any case, most of the reasons behind this poverty isn't because of a lack of money in the world, but because of corrupt governments.

And this has been in progress for 20 years or so.