Can Technology Help Eradicate Poverty?

[IndigoRed]

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?

[iluvbitcoins]

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.

[hilawnasaging]

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.

[dauletbaeffberdakh]

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.

[Zurcermozz]

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

[Impulseboy]

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.

[guybrushthreepwood]

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.

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?

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.

[queenstella]

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

[letstalkbitcoin2]

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.

[criza]

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.

[cicakpacakpalakcicak]

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.

[boyptc]

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.

[Chinedu157]

of course you can see what is happening in china today

[Woultries]

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.

[IGP50]

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.

[Nicolas Hamizan]

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

[CryptoDamon]

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.

[alyssaxx]

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.

[tvbcof]

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?

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.

[Spendulus]

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