Quote from: trand on May 29, 2018, 09:16:14 PM

It is easy for the charity but I do not think that blockchain can stop the poverty. if there is no poverty, there will be no rich people. I believe that both wealthy and poverty have to exist at the same time. That is how life works. Everything has to have both side

Unfortunately, I agree with you.

For thousands of years people lived in hunter-gatherer societies that were egalitarian.

There was "poverty" at that time, but it was not created by a human factor.

Concept of profit and wealth came with development of private property, 10.000 years BC I guess.

From its very beginnings (in ancient Mesopotamia/Iraq) business served as a driving force of history - it generated new ideas, pushed technological development, even cultural development. In the same way as today. On the other hand, it has created and maintained "artificial" poverty for centuries. So, it's weird. In a way, poverty is the price we pay for the progress that we enjoy today.

But, in a long historical perspective - poverty is just a concept.
For thousands of years, slavery was a legal and normal thing, today it is not. Polytheistic religions have been normal for thousands of years. Before capitalism, there was feudalism and so on. People have used a bunch of things as money throughout history, and now we are in the crypto currencies.

So, I think the concepts gradually grow old and die of old age.

Finns already experiment with it - trying to introduce guaranteed minimum income for everyone.