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It's a common misconception that inherently social problems (drug abuse, mistreatment of children, crime, war) can be solved with technical solutions. The answ
by JacksonGariety 13y ago
It's a common misconception that inherently social problems (drug abuse, mistreatment of children, crime, war) can be solved with technical solutions.
The answer isn't in a new drug or a new device or a new kind of weapon, it's in ourselves, and we don't need a foundation of rich entrepreneurs to catalyze this change.
- MLfan 13y agoDo you really think that poor kids stop dying of preventable diseases if every single person who’s reading HN changes? Inner change is not the vaccine, it can’t feed people, it can’t help with improving living conditions for the poor countries. It’s Doing something for them that should help. Bill Gates is so right at having his own plan how to help people and offering us to take part in it. The actions should help not mere inner change.
- JacksonGariety 13y agoInternal change can solve most every problem, because most every problem is a reflection of an internal conflict. It sounds far fetched, but when you boil people's problems down to what they really are, you'll see the traditional western way of fixing things tends to invent a technical solution to make up for where the previous one failed. For example, factory-made pesticides that cause hyper-evolution in weeds that try to resist. A newer more powerful pesticide can't fix the problem created by the old pesticide.