Can Technology Help Eradicate Poverty?

[CRYPTON0101]

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.

[akirasendo17]

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.

[GlumMasterpiece]

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?

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.

[Emily_Davis]

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?

[Willie_Linder]

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.

[mimienamphine]

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.

[Adecrypt83]

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 .

[tvbcof]

As far as technology goes, One trip to the moon could feed millions of homeless, hungry people. To eradicate poverty, All people would have to be limited to a basic income. And not be allowed to hoard money for themselves. There's plenty of money, I'ts just all in the wrong places.
If people are able to work, they should. If they aren't, they should be helped by fellow Americans. Look at Bill Gates, Hes the richest dude around. But he does the right thing, He gives his money away to help others. He will probably be the one responsible for finding a vaccine for AIDS. If all the rich were as generous as he is, The world would be a better place to live.

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.

[fairyvibes]

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.

[HaniBaloch]

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

[hotimbineh]

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

[Weluxzee]

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

[hero_moon]

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

[Lesterus]

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.

[El_rancho]

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.

[IndigoRed]

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?

[CLAID]

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

[GlumMasterpiece]

As far as technology goes, One trip to the moon could feed millions of homeless, hungry people. To eradicate poverty, All people would have to be limited to a basic income. And not be allowed to hoard money for themselves. There's plenty of money, I'ts just all in the wrong places.
If people are able to work, they should. If they aren't, they should be helped by fellow Americans. Look at Bill Gates, Hes the richest dude around. But he does the right thing, He gives his money away to help others. He will probably be the one responsible for finding a vaccine for AIDS. If all the rich were as generous as he is, The world would be a better place to live.

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.

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.

[Bennix]

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.

[tvbcof]

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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.

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,