Eradicating Poverty – worldwide – needs to be on the Transhumanist To-Do List.
We need to utilize new technology and new ideas to alleviate the hunger, disease, malnutrition, and despair that are caused by poverty. We need to be philanthropic, charitable, generous. We need to be expert fundraisers – like Robin Hood – obtaining money from the haves to distribute to the have-nots.
We also need to devise new economic and political systems that can take care of all the humans that are presently excluded.
Transhumanism is often regarded by outsiders as selfish, self-absorbed with enhancements and life extension. Atheism is often regarded as “negative.” To alleviate this (legitimate, IMO) observation and complaint, transhumanists and atheists should focus a bit on ending starvation, ending homelessness, ending war, establishing equitable wealth distribution, and guaranteeing affordable education and health care for all.
To introduce the topic with humor, I have selected a few of my favorite memes that address poverty.
Let me know your favorites, and please send me more if you wish.
* edited by staff
* hero image used from http://acidcow.com/pics/14395-faces-of-poverty-33-pics.html
July 28, 2014 at 12:05 am
I’m sure there are many ways that poverty could be eradicated. Smart, prosperous people know how to do this…I give money for homeless people, but I should buy them food instead…they might buy alcohol if they are alcoholics. But I’d like to help if I can, let me know how!
There are many ways poverty can be eradicated! Smart, rich people know how to do this. I’d like to help, just show me and others what to do!
July 28, 2014 at 12:06 am
I like the ‘poverty’ is the worst kind of violence best. The others make it sound as though the rich are to blame which is a bit unfair, given that the massive disparities between the wealthiest in the world and the poorest is not a situation for which one group of people must shoulder the blame but rather one which has arisen from the very zeitgeist of our age, and we are all agents and victims of it.
We already produce enough food to feed everybody, so what needs to be fixed is our inability to distribute that produce.