I don't think that you can eradicate poverty (handouts don't count) because there simply isn't enough non-subsistence related work for 6 billion people. for ou

I don't think that you can eradicate poverty (handouts don't count) because there simply isn't enough non-subsistence related work for 6 billion people. for our purposes poverty = subsistence or close to it once energy is cheap (distributed solar) humanity can turn to the problem of food distribution and education. Once we start getting more people educated more einstein's and other people who add disproportionate value to humanity should pop up and we'll get accelerating returns. the point of all this is to solve the population problem before the population problem solves us, so to speak.