Topic: Can Technology Help Eradicate Poverty? - page 2. (Read 1072 times)

I understand a lot of what you're saying, but I don't see the answer my question. Sorry, if I'm just missing it. You talk about new dictatorship in the form of technocracy. You said previously that the developed world has tamed poverty thanks to technology. How is this actually happening? How is the "technocracy" sharing the wealth somehow to make poor people more wealthy? I don't find that dictators are usually overly generous.

Most dictatorships eventually fall due to a reaction of the people.  A 'scientific dictatorship' (aka 'technocracy') seeks to cut off some of the avenues for failure which have vexed past dictatorships.  This through extremely fine-grained monitoring and control of every aspect of every individual's life.

Those funding the 'technocracy' which is half-way in place already are largely the very people who mastered the previous dictatorship which was based on control of debt-based money.  They plan to continue to sit right where they are at on top of the pyramid, but be able to sleep better at night knowing that a toppling is even less possible than before.

BTW, could these debt-based monetary system leaders have created peace and comfort to the impoverished masses?  I say 'yes', they probably could have.  Did they?  I say 'no'.  For the most part they created war, misery, and hopelessness in order to increase their own wealth and power.  I see no reason why they would change their tune if/when they sat atop a technocracy.  The 'illuminated' mind does not tend to see value in such things.  The 'scientists and engineers' who work on these technocracy systems will NOT be the ones making the decisions as is commonly marketed.  In fact they will be a weak link in the system due to their knowledge and capabilities and will probably be in some danger.

No. it is only our selves that can uplift our state of human being not technology

You're right that technology creates much more wealth. Many types of technology can increase production by 100 times or more. You say that the developed world has tamed poverty thanks to technology. How do you think that's actually happening? The problem is that a limited group of people actually benefit from the production gained from technology. Sure, there is some more tax money paid, but most of the money goes making the rich get richer.

Depending on the individual individual if they can use wisely they should get the results

Yes, technology can actually eradicate poverty. Let's not go far, using smart as a case study, a lot of people who doesn't have money to buy laptops have used their smartphones to make fortunes out of it. I know a few persons who are self sponsored in the university with online business. All these are made possible through the innovations of technology. So technology can eradicate poverty.

'Afrian Man' is totally correct.  With constructs like the IMF and World Bank it is almost guaranteed that those who achieve political power are puppets of the West (and now more and more of the East) installed only to help siphon resources out of the country at dirt-cheap rates.

The common people have common sense and can 'feel' what is going on even if they cannot see it with total clarity.  One has to work around the mainstream media Goliath in order to get a clear view, and that is not always easy even for people who have an interest in doing so.

The only solution that I know that will help to eradicate poverty is ourselves. Only us can help ourselves to lift our lives to live better. It is not technology, it is not donations. It should be us. We should teach ourselves to strive hard so that we no longer rely always on the government.

i believe you but the honesty truth is that the Afrian Man finds it diffiult to trust his fellow brother. especially back home in africa. it is deficult to allow him toa decision.

I've given away a lot actually.  And I don't take tax write-offs for it.  I also don't do it in order to harm the 'useless eater' untermensch class so they don't cause me competition or cost me money in the future.

Bill Gates was literally bragging that he talked to Trump and put a stop to further vaccines safety studies just recently.  This after he was bragging that through vaccines (and a few other things) they could reduce the peak population by a cool billion or so.

Bill Gates was a piece of shit 30 years ago when he was trying to outlaw open-source software which competed with his closed-source spyware and he's an even bigger piece of shit today IMHO,

The developed world has tame poverty to a reasonable extent via the instrumentality of technology.If you watch the difference between old stone age and new stone age,you will know is technology.All the sectors starting from agricultural,financial,industrial and educational tor you will see that technology has brought a lot of calculated transformation to the extent that technology triggered high productivity meaning what 100 men could do in one month, with technology,it will be done in a day.

I don't know that much about Bill Gates, but it seems like you're being pretty harsh on him. According to Wikipedia, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the world at 38 billion dollars. He's put more than 28 billion dollars into it himself. Considering that his currently net worth is a bit over 90 billion, that means he's give about 1/4 of his wealth to charity. What percentage of your money have you given away? Bill Gates could just feed billions of people, but what good would that do. He's trying to find long-lasting solutions to our problems.

Yes I think but if we use in the correct way to make workers work easier and to make new job opportunities for people but it is not happening today

I’ve heard recently that blockchain can help reduce poverty, particularly in developing countries. How? Blockchain and cryptos can open up a new financial world to the undeserved. It can provide international ecommerce for everyone. Everything else is too centralized, and the free market can only be created by blockchain. Once everyone has the equal access to payment and business services and systems, everyone has a better chance to make money and live a better life. What do you think?

It's not gonna quite help at all especially if that technology is new and exclusive.
There's really no guarantee that technology would entirely be the absolute and anticipated solution to solve and eradicate
poverty once and for all, at least not in today's life standard.
Technology may in fact make things harder for some people around the world.
Technology is costly after all.

technology help to improve our daily life and gets more easier to live. I think technology could help our poverty but can't eradicate the poor peoples. poverty is always there and we cannot remove their existence but technology can reduce poverty.

Yes. I believe so. Technology helps people to lift their minds and expand their horizon

Technology is a driving force to betterment of the standard of living, if the government puts in great technological innovation, poverty can be well curtailed

technological progress is part of the future of the world, but not all technologies can eradicate poverty and peace because some technologies have an adverse impact on the environment, destroying the future of the world

of course it can help eradicate poverty if people use it in right trick .....