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Technologies like virtual and augmented realities create experiences which can help generate empathy. Why? Because these experiences enable us humans to live in the shoes of others. Makes sense, right? This can foster understanding and compassion among leaders and policymakers, helping solve issues such as civil rights, social welfare and immigration, and therefore can be a solution to growth and equality.
What do you think?

Empathy can often be counter productive.

Look at wellfare.
Look at Africa.

We pour in billions and billions of voluntary donated $ into Africa to feed the people, and nothing is achieved since they aren't capable of producing their own items to make their own lives easier.

People need to take care of themselves.

Having empathy doesn't mean you're going to do something good, only that you're going to feel like you're doing something good.
Sometimes the harsh options are the best options for the people.

No. You can only achieve it if you are a part of it. Technology can only support us, but it cannot eradicate poverty. Why? If people from poor countries are still unable to cope with the evolution and development happening in our world, they will be still. But, if their country men are able to cope with it, they will be able to eradicate poverty. You cannot simply become rich just because of technology, you have to learn first before you achieve.

I think no. New technologies are expensive. Even I can not buy a lot of technology. My salary is not enough. There will always be the poor. The poor will not disappear.

I have Two Answer, Yes And No:
-Yes because it will in school to gain more knowledge, it will also help them to contribute on society, like social medias, it can help also help for Donation and funds who experience Poverty.
-No because like others said, Technologies are too expensive and it cannot provide the remote islands

While technology allow us to communicate and reach wider people in any part of he world, making it easier to spread and seek help, I do not think it will help eradicate poverty. Sometimes you can only help someone who actually wants to be helped. At the end of the day, a person's success/personal development lies in themselves.

No, technology alone cannot eradicate poverty. The only thing that can eradicate poverty is money and opportunities. You can give people money and food but it is better to create jobs and infrastructure that can be used to build communities and countries from the ground up and let people help themselves. Most people I think would prefer the opportunity to help themselves rather than rely on free hand outs but there needs to be the opportunity there in the first place. I think most people would like jobs and education, but if the schools and workplaces are miles away and they have no money to get there then it becomes a catch 22 situation. Instead of international corporations going to developing countries and paying them peanuts they should pay them a fairer wage. The people can then get themselves out of poverty whilst those companies can still benefit from lower wages (but not sweat-shop wages) and the country will gradually develop from there. The problem is is that companies only care about paying low wages and cutting costs and people are often desperate and have no choice.


People already know what life is like for the most unfortunate on the planet, but they don't want to be reminded about it because it's a depressing part of the reality of humanity, and as the old saying goes out of sight out of mind.

Technology can help to eradicate poverty as one can reach out to the world for wider knowledge and better gains. instead of being secluded in a place or being redundant

technology would have help to eradicate poverty if everybody world over where technologically inclined, but reverse seems to be the case because not everybody is technologically aware. Technology have really help to ease the way we do and view things, like for instance now am sitting in my sitting room and bounty hunting, at the end i get paid in token for each campaign i engage in, i mean that wont have been possible without technology. But the problem is that not everyone is educated enough to do such, not everyone have the awareness of bounty, you see, technology will only ease our stress but cant eradicate poverty completely. Information and education coupled with technological advancement will at least eradicate poverty to the bearest minimum.

If you look at it in the first place, you might think that technologies cannot help eradicate poverty, because it seems that poor people only gets poorer as they try to reach out in the online world and usetechnology. We might think that it only makes them lazy, hencemaking them poorer. However, little did we know that technology ay somehow help eradicate poverty. It is because it can serve as a platform for the people to het empathy and sympathy by means of sharing their story. And these empathy and sympathy way turn into a campaign and can be an income-generating project that does not necessarily give the poor the money but an opportunity for them to work in a decent and fair workplace when it comes to salary and workload.

if seen in the present eras technology can obviously help eradicate poverty for example with technology one can trade through an online shop or can also find a job in internet services that certainly can help eradicate poverty because if the level of unemployment is reduced of course the poverty rate will also slowly decrease.

If virtual reality is needed for empathy, it's just a waste of money for ones country that will use it that way.

Earlier days there are countries that doesn't have enough knowledge with technology but they are rich in resources, it's just about on how they'll use their resources to end poverty problems.

If there's enough resources to ones country, no one will have to starve to death, no one will complain about poverty because most of them are working to produce something new with those resources.

But the sad part, not all countries does have those resources.  :-\

As part of solution to those countries that doesn't have enough resources to manufacture/reproduce something profitable, they can use their environment, adopt it and make something out of it.

of course you can see what is happening in china today

Technology can definitely help eradicate poverty but it can also cause poverty. It really depends on how the community or government uses it. Technology, in itself, is neutral. It's like a knife -- it can be life-saving or life-threatening depending on how it is used.

Applying scientific knowledge in today's world will go  very long way to get away with the rate of poverty Through technology, the rate of unemployment will be drastically reduced since there will be the job avenues available to the public. Also, people will get the chance to explore more and find other ways of getting money on crypto currencies. For instance is bounty hunters partaking in bounty campaigns and getting paid at the end.

technology can eradicate poverty. I took our example with the help of technology to easily raise funds from around the world to help starving Africans, just by uploading a video

Nothing can eradicate poverty even technology. Poverty is a cycle handed down from generations to generations. Poverty for me is a choice. A person may be born poor but with hard work, perseverance and patience he can die rich.
Greediness, selfishness, corruption, oppression and laziness is the root cause of poverty. Eliminating those things can only help eradicate poverty not technology.

More jobs is will help eradicate poverty not technology and proper education. And also if the government is not corrupt.  If we have a better government and their jobs will be done properly there's no more poor people.
 And also if we help each other and respect we can attain better life.

Total bull.  If anything they'll develop even less 'empathy' than the vestigial amount of empathy that they might have.  The 'game' of managing the 'useless eater' classes for maximum exploitation will be even more of a 'virtual world' for these creeps.

Far down the pyramid there will be middle managers who may have a typical amount of empathy, but this type of 'normal' degrees of humanity is totally incompatible with performance in the higher ranks of power.  Again, 'technology' will make the situation worse not better.

Some research I've been reading describes the methods whereby the 'elite' put a great deal of effort into well honed methods of killing off empathy in their own children's very early years when the mind is still quite malleable.  Nasty stuff, but I'm only 50/50 on whether there is substance to some of these tales.  Some circumstantial evidence indicates to me that there could be, and it does seem to be the case that leadership placements do have a fairly strong familial basis even to this day in supposedly 'democratic' forms of government.

among sociopaths and psychopaths? That's what many world leaders and policymakers are...

Technology removing poverty from the world is a bit ambitious.
I believe we need all types of people as far as professions, education levels and those spiritual or poverty. Even what the world considers as good and bad...Its a balance..Destruction brings forth the new
Contrast creates new worlds. Not to say that people should starve...planting all types of fruit bearing trees having access to fishing raising cattle having these resources available for those that desire to live a more modest existence.

I think not, why technology is in the hands of the wealthy people
they are not going to give away something without getting a thing or get profit,
technology may or maybe help eradicate poverty in a way that someone takes control
of everything that has a heart for the poor, give away something that may help poor people
do things and make it prosper, but the key here is that even though you are poor
with technology or not fight and strive until you achieve your goal in life, never give up
because at the end of the day, you will be the key to success.

You've thought up quite the scenario. So, you imagine that some political leaders will put on some virtual reality goggles, see poverty, be touched, then go save the world? This seems highly unlikely. I guess the only thing I can imagine similar to this is that thanks to technology, people can become more aware of the issues poor people are facing and then come up with solutions that will bring permanent positive change to their lives.

The biggest way technology is helping to eradicate poverty though is education. The internet is very quickly covering the whole world. Now millions of people have access to all the world's information, who didn't even have access to schools before. This is changing the world.

I doubt poverty will ever go away. Why? Because not everyone will be industrious and smart enough to generate wealth. And in as much as you're not offering services that generate wealth, then you will be poor. This idea of helping others, especially by welfare, is misplaced. If we must tame poverty, education and empowerment is the way. It is better to teach people to fish than to give them fish. Technology might actually go a little way in reducing poverty but it will not eradicate it. Aren't there poor societies even in the most technologically advanced countries?

We need technology. We have been able to develop our society thanks to it. Without technology, we would have been equal to the caveman. Technology nowadays is even more important than religion. We cannot live without our phones or computers. Many people earn thanks to computers. We have many millionaires thanks to computers and the internet. Indeed technology has a big role to play in our society. I am sure that one day, we will eradicate poverty thanks to it. We are actually already trying. The bitcoin is one the method to eradicate poverty thanks to technology.

There are so many innovative ways to deal with the canker of poverty globally and the advent of technology through internet is already doing wonders.Through technology, the cure for strange disease that affect the poor can be tackled,new jobs are created through the internet, new vaccines are emerging etc.Technology is a great tool for poverty reduction worldwide and we need to stick to it's development and mainstream usage.

I don't there's anything that can eradicate poverty in this world, there will always be poor people in the land. Poverty is state mind and even in developed world,there are still poor and homeless people .

As far as I can tell Bill Gates is among the most evil men to have ever lived.  Hard-core eugenicist from a family of the same (his father headed up planned parenthood who's roots trace right back to the early 20th century eugenicists who changed their marketing once the Nazis gave the movement a bad name.)

Gates is a cheap fucker to.  He'll happily sterilize and cut the branches off the trees of 'useless eater' family lines so his class can more safely make more money, but won't then shoulder the burden of taking care of people who have no support when they get old because they were covertly sterilized and have no children to take care of them.

Gates and people like him want the population to be about 1/10 of what it is now.  And they want to make sure that people like themselves maintain an advantage over the remaining population so that they can properly 'manage' the planet.

Gates has enough money to buy the best PR which works wonders on the weak of mind...as evidenced by posts like yours.

It's more of a social issue.  America is one of the most advanced countries in the world but they still have a serious homeless problem because the majority of the new wealth created goes to the top.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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 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.

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'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,

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I think you may have gotten my comments confused with someone elses'.  I also did not really seek to answer a question of yours.  Mostly just to present my view on the realities of technology and society to contrast it with the standard marketing fluff.

Truthstreammedia did a little piece which is very eye-opening on where one of the leading technology corporations is wishing to take 'the hive'.  They are not even trying to hide things at this point.  Well worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ekkwAyNf1w

In a bee hive, the 99.99% have a 'good life' and are perfectly happy doing their thing.  It may be collecting as much pollen as they can in the three weeks they have to live.  Or it may be a suicide attack on a threat to the hive.  Or joining a mass swarm in hopes of helping a new leader to exploit another resource even if 9 times out of ten the operation will be a failure and they will all die.

The .01% sit in the middle of the hive and control the activities through 'information' (transferred chemically through pheromones in this case.)  They receive information from the hive in the same manner in order to make 'better' decisions.

Some highly intelligent people cannot help but be enchanted by the thought of the power of sitting at the center of the hive and directing it's activities.  Perhaps most such people.  Most of them will be convinced that when they get such power they will use it for good.  Unfortunately most will find that they simply built a system for someone else to control.

You're right, sorry. You actually responded to my comment, so I assumed that you were the person that I had initially responded to. It looks like Bennix still hasn't answered me. I made a mistake. Sorry for that.

That's an interesting comparison you make with beehives. Do you really think that the "leaders" are highly intelligent? Is that what it takes?

As best I can determine, the closest thing we have to 'actual leaders' at this time are heirs to dynastic fortunes, most of which are built on exploitation of the modern debt-backed monetary systems.  Some are intelligent and most are _very_ highly trained, but 'regression to the mean' takes it's toll.  Inbreeding is sometimes a factor as well such was clearly evident in the European monarchies.  These issues are more easily hidden now.

The obvious solution to the aforementioned problems is to retain promising people who are both highly intelligent AND have other psychological profile features which are useful.  Guys like Jacob Schiff, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigniew Brzezinski for instance.

Most of the 'Scientists and Engineers' working on modern projects for the 'leaders' are among the highest in terms of native intellect, but at a third wrung or below on the power structure.  Unfortunately for them, when their tasks have been accomplished they turn into a liability in the eyes of the real leaders.  In some ways they are analogous to the military leaders of times past.

Yeah, the intelligence part seemed strange to me. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong people, but sometimes seems like leaders are not all that intelligent at all. When nepotism is at play, it seems intelligence isn't a requirement at all. Even if we look at politicians, intelligence doesn't seem to be a key requirement. The most important thing is that they can talk themselves out of any situation. It's more of a show. I can see though that often the "leaders" we see are more like puppets. Maybe they have a group of intelligent people behind them.

Prosperity comes from hard work, not from technology.

hard work and/or technology

I read other articles about how VR can be a tool for empathy. I believe some developers recently created experiences that allow users to understand immigration issues, or even witness events such as the Hiroshima bombing. Some say the technology helps us achieve equality. What do you think about that?

I even found a debate on whether tech is democratizing or not. There’s some interesting points raised there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SciFiRealism/comments/93fa8h/is_tech_democratizing_everything/

It can if we implement such technologies properly in the world with well balance

Yeah I totally agree with you but technology with hard work can do miracles to reduce poverty

I think so too. And there's always been a balance, I believe. Humans at the end of the day, will always have the choice when it comes to how and when to use these available technologies. But with recent developments in technology aimed at improving education, health and our financial system, I do believe it can enhance the lives of society.

But certainly technology can aid us in uplifting our lives, right? That fact you're able to post a comment here is because of technology. And this forum has proven to be very helpful in discovering new things, right?
Even indirectly, technology can aid in improving the welfare of society. For example, they say blockchain tech can help improve the voting process. This means no fraud and more people will get to vote. This can then lead to electing the right leaders who can create the best policies for society. They say digital currencies on the other hand, will eliminate corruption. So I guess in one way or another, technology can help enhance everyone's lives.

I don't think technology can help eradicate poverty. Now a days whole world is using robot in their factory for production. So poor people are loosing work. Yes we need technology but technology can't eradicate poverty.

Teach a man to fish, indeed..

depending on the sentiment and alignment of the government and officials to respond to this, because this relates to broad regulations and rules

Inclusive agriculture, rural growth and structural transformation from agriculture to high-productivity manufacturing and other economic sectors can be accelerated and it depends if those people will be able to learn this technology it can't help eradicate poverty if they have no knowledge.

It seems to me that this is quite possible, but only technologies should go very far.  And so that people do not have to work!

Somehow. For example, blockchain can help unbanked people, who haven't access to financial service. Fintech solution companies in different countries and the services they are offering to the unbanked. China, India, Pakistan, and Indonesia all have at least 1 or more fintech companies serving the unbanked population. If you want to find out more look at this Infographic; https://www.cyberius.com/how-can-fintech-help-the-unbanked-infographic/ (https://www.cyberius.com/how-can-fintech-help-the-unbanked-infographic/)

Found this interesting article discussing how augmented reality games can foster empathy. It reports,
“Current research suggests that virtual environments have a heightened capacity to inspire empathy via embodiment of novel avatars (virtual bodies that do not resemble the user’s physical body). For example, when people took on the identity of a piece of acidifying coral in virtual reality, they were more likely to show empathy towards the ecosystem after the experience. These findings indicate an opportunity for AR games to positively impact users and communities. Carefully crafted augmented reality games can bring people together and inspire empathy, kindness and understanding.
Maybe this is what the world needs at these challenging times?
https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/24/augmented-reality-can-foster-empathy-and-games-can-take-advantage/

Yes, of course. There are a lot of researchers that indicate how technology can help poverty. One of the examples is Fintech that may help Unbanked Population (people who don't have enough money for banking). More about this problem you can find out here: https://www.cyberius.com/how-can-fintech-help-the-unbanked-infographic/ (https://www.cyberius.com/how-can-fintech-help-the-unbanked-infographic/)

Absolutely. Technology will lead us to post-scarcity.

If there's poverty in post-scarcity, it's society causing it by artificial limitations of goods/services.