Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: Maybe folks should be worrying about extreme poverty (1.25 / day or ~$40 a > month) before they worry about 2800 a month. > > > http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2013/ending-extreme-poverty#poverty_scenarios > > We can do both. First world problems need to be solved, as do third-world problems. First-world problems also make people miserable.
Giving first-world people thousands of dollars gratis will not reduce the resources available for third-world people. Our technology no longer works on a zero-sum basis, where if I gain, you lose. Okay, some of our technology does. Oil supplies are limited. Wind supplies are effectively unlimited although expensive to tap. Cold fusion will be completely unlimited and virtually free. Computer power and storage is free. Google gives you 4 GB of storage for nothing. 4 GB is probably more storage than the entire city of Atlanta had in 1970. - Jed
