<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Of course and agree with you, Tara. Very intelligent and true answer.<br><br></div>What I wanted to mean is that doesn´t mind if there is rich or poor people as long as even the poorest person has enough to live a life (that is, at least, food, water and a shelter... and I even would say: A room for him or him and his family, food, electricity, water and internet.)<br>
<br></div>Ha ha. In a debate during a Tedx I said that the poorest person in Spain is, in certain way, more rich than the richest king on middle ages and I was booed :D<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Tara Maya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class=""><div><br></div><div><div>On Mar 17, 2014, at 3:30 AM, Eugenio Martínez <<a href="mailto:rolandodegilead@gmail.com" target="_blank">rolandodegilead@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite">If we achieve B and still people have to work and, therefore, still are poors, I mean:<br><br>If we have the possibility of make everybody´s life assured (and AI´s give us that possibility) and we don´t, Trans<b>Humanist</b> philosophies can be marked as another crazy unreachable utopia. Saving lives (of those who want to live) is ethically important.</blockquote>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>But you see, poverty is completely relative. I've worked in a homeless shelter and I can tell you that the homeless of America are wealthy and healthy compared to the poor of the Third World. And the poor of the Third World are healthy and wealthy compared to people from the past.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In Bali, a delightful island paradise where food literally falls from trees, the traditional religious calendar is arranged so that about a third of all days in the year "must" be spent creating huge arrangements of fruit, flowers and colored powders. Dancing and rituals take the rest of the day. Traditionally the "rich" were people who could afford bigger arrangements of flowers. (Obviously, I'm simplifying, there were wars and what-not too), but my point is that even in a society where no one HAD to starve, or fight, or die of illness, because it was just such a rich and safe and prosperous society… there would still be an economy, there would still be people with more flowers and others with less. Because that's human nature. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Now, once human nature changes, all bets are off. But there's unfortunately no reason to think that AIs or Transhumans would be any less competitive. </div><div class=""><br><div>
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