How do the poor see life? Uneducated, not stupid | Rajen Makhijani | TEDxNTU

[@bicyclist2]

It's so good to finally see a person who really gets it. There are way too many people who try to talk about poverty who have no real understanding of the poor and the issues they face. God bless. Thanks.

[@rajenmak]

Thank you so much sir. All on a journey. All nibbling away at these big problems with our little teeth.

[@iamasmurf1122]

This is talking about being poor not poverty there is a big difference

[@wisdomclasses6669]

This is what called a TED Talk. A man of great deeds not mare ideas. Love to see such a person like you dear.

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you for your generosity sir.

[@MariaKostyukova]

Ok it’s one of the best TED talks I’ve ever seen hands down

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you for your generosity.

[@a.a.5880]

So much wisdom presented in 18 minutes. There are people who don't reach this point at the age of 70

[@AlessandroFerrandoBCN]

I liked his Han Solo outfit, great inspiring talk too

[@meetagupta9918]

Really inspiring and genuine talk on how to take off our glasses and look at the other us. What you've done is really commendable Rajen. Kudos to you.

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you so much Meeta.. Really appreciate!

[@sujaynair4666]

This talk is criminally underrated! Yes, perhaps the global poverty scale is decreasing, but truly influencing people to move out into the world and really explore the day to day experiences, is the most life changing and meaningful way toward eventual action - by truly understanding those you are trying to help.

[@taraksgoradia]

Absolutely brilliant! It opened up a whole new perspective for many of us. After conquering the fundamental needs of resources and security, as we run around looking for 'relevance', this talk provides a pointer.

[@rajenmak]

Thank you Tarak! Learnt a lot from your real and big moves to 'The Other Side'

[@jacquelineworthington9585]

Inspiring and articulately expressed presentation. Thank you

[@rajenmak]

Very kind of you ma'm

[@ChandranshuDwivedi]

its very easy to talk about poor and equally hard to do anything about it. good to know Rajen is actually committed in his mission. atleast he has a mission in his life.

[@saahilsethi]

Absolutely amazing and inspiring talk Rajen !!! If all of us could step out of our safe zone and go out into this world to help others, the world would certainly be a much better place !

[@rajenmak]

Just by saying that you already did dear Saahil! Because the universe conspires to give us what we want. And it already has perhaps begun preparations for you.. .You have been one of the kindest and most earnest I have met...

[@boi-xu6zd]

I just realised how beautiful an opportunity I have got. Thank you for openning my eyes. Thankyou

[@zurichkunst3615]

Eye opening and Transformational. One of the best TED talks ever.

[@akshobhgiridharadas4560]

Rajen, brilliant talk! Glad you came for my party. Never know where the next opportunity comes from.

[@Jraymiami]

Wow!!!! An amazing human being 🙏🏻 ...a real life superhero!!!

[@rajenmak]

Thank you for your kind words. May I have the courage to grow into being worthy of these words.

[@niakum]

Great talk Rajen on how poverty affects choices

[@EshaClabil]

Oooh!! I can only imagine the kind of preparation that took! What an inspiring talk!! More power to you and your ilk!

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you so much for the warm words of encouragement.

[@zamoblacktiger]

Best Ted speaker I have ever watched. Very deep very sensible very informative and very liberating. God Bless you brother.

[@rajenmak]

How kind of you!

[@LivingDead53]

We have an interesting culture. I had a lot of socioeconomic problems growing up, and it made me crazy. I was so stressed. I had a horrible frame of reference. Personal prison. I have a relative who was in bad poverty, and she doesn't have psychological issues whatsoever.

[@jakeornot6306]

No one knows why one person does better than another in the same situation . The important thing is not to become resentful of those that do ok.

[@MsLucia4179]

Jakeornot Actually I would argue that a person's perception and how they view the world around them is exactly how one person can do better/worse then another.

[@MsLucia4179]

@Goldie O That still doesn't negate what I said. Your perception, while similar to viewpoint, is still not the same thing. You perceive that you've been shot down by horrible support systems, the reality may be different in that you have just made poor choices based on poor decisions. Not saying that's the case but rather an example. Perception is what you think vs reality while viewpoint is how you see the world. So, while some has a poor perception and viewpoint of the world they will be more likely to focus on the negative while someone with a more positive outlook while try to focus on seeing the silver linings and good points to take away from a bad situation. It's easier to focus on the bad and the negative, it takes real strength and courage to focus on the positive, even in a bad situation. It's how a person can learn and evolve to something better then they were before. If you keep looking at horrible support systems, then that's all you'll get. Also, it may take several no's before you get a yes. Successful people face setbacks too, they just don't let it define them and will strive to master their goals.

[@varuno7560]

Is he a professor? I want to listen him more.

[@limmingming4022]

Thank you for helping me to express WHY I do not buy Insurance... so that it helps me to be aware of my own action is daily food n activities..those "to do" n "not to do" that builts up to keep me " healthy" when I feel that I'm not healthy, I watch what I hv been eating or how I take stress... n I internally educate myself.... the more we rely on insurance...it helps us to neglect ourselves.... n at the end we pay to weakened our health....

[@alisiamiller3750]

I have grown up in the cup of tea society and lived in it so much that I need insurance. This is a great talk and you are to be thanked for caring about the poor. You realize what REALLY goes on in so many peoples lives.

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you!

[@newtothedomain]

I wish I could give this a bunch of more 'likes'. Thank you for this.

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you. Thank you. I can certainly give many thank you's :-)

[@NEWGREATNESS]

these ted talks really make me think about things I don't normally think about. Thank you for sharing you experiences and perspectives. I really want to make a difference in the world. i feel like helping people is a great way to help yourself and get to know yourself better. Appreciating life will help you achieve happiness.. The concept of other self was really interesting. I will never think about a "cup of tea" the same ever again now. Thank you, very impactful.

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you Aldric. I must admit I too only still in search of the 'Other Self" occassionally being able to see a fleeting glimpse of it in the other. But yes, I must say I have begun to enjoy tea, and fortunately I can do so along with insurance!

[@adamkunzun]

Aldric Williams thank you for UR change of mind towards positive approaches towards humanity.

[@jakeornot6306]

The TED people know their audience well. Sounds good - means nothing. This is always for elites to make themselves feel better about how they, in fact, interact with people who are not. It is never the case that you are as I am, or vice versa.

[@teachingvalues6258]

Jakeornot - How many other absolutes and negatives ("never the case", "means nothing", "who are not") can you offer that prevent you (us) from thinking? So far you are averaging one per sentence!

[@jakeornot6306]

If what you perceive as absolutes and negatives prevents you, or others from independent thought, it is then clearer why individuals are so enchanted by TED talks.

[@anant088]

Thank you for this inspirational talk. I have also experienced life on the other side and I personally think that you are spot on with your perspective. Fortunately, i'm (financially) better off today, and sincerely wish more people would realize and value the comfortable life they are spoonfed.

[@asyrafmangsor267]

You're so inspiring ! Thanks for the wonderful talk. Truly a mind opener.

[@rajenmak]

Thank you!

[@kevinchauhan7]

Great talk. I am amazed with this guys love for his fellow humans.

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

That is one of the kindest compliments .. it is very much an end destination, and I am far from it. Hence exploring!

[@bakkudeku]

The first thing to know about capitalism should be that the sole purpose of a business is making money. Any other purpose that might be attained with a business is secondary, optional, and just-for-show. The ideal world of capitalism is a centralist state run by business, for the benefit of business, and overstepping anything that might even slightly tribulate the routine carrying out of well-advantageous, far-reaching, highly-effective, and exceptionally profitable business. There's no point in even trying to fix it. We should start over again by thinking of reorganising society without even resorting to fluctuant, cumulative, and concentrative currency. We need to rethink the value of stuff. Why would a diamond have possibly more value than an apple? You can't eat a diamond, it won't protect you from cold, there's no value to it, except that which humans have agreed on: that it is more valuable than an apple, a tree, you, me, anything! We should rethink what we actually value, and if we come to realise that it's love, peace, community, happiness, health, freedom, kindness, friendship, and endurance, then we could start by recognising that a diamond is not valuable at all.

[@Adrian-dl9nb]

Edward Soares I agree with you, but since that's not going to happen anytime soon, we need to adapt our lifestyles to make it happen without changing the entire world. We can't just start a global revolution. And even though I get your point, you should know that diamond has plenty of uses, it is an amazing material.

[@bakkudeku]

"A diamond [is not valuable at all]" was mostly rhetorical. Of course, a diamond has value, it's hard to even imagine something completely devoid of value, and as a material/resource for S&T, it's pretty useful. But to put an absurdly huge monetary label on even a few grams of a mineral, that's absurd and disproportionate to what utilitarian value a diamond might possess, which is rather representative of what capitalism does. We know it's not gonna happen any time soon - or ever, maybe a dystopic world awaits humanity in a few decades from now, maybe some copy of a III Reich will arise from the ashes of the European Union and the U.S., to engulf the world in televised, industrial extermination camps, where people would be forced to either fight to the death, to the cheers of a frenzied "bread and circus" crowd, or suffer a slow, painful death by misery, disease, crime, pollusion, and starvation. Maybe that, maybe not. Future looks bleak today...

[@bumcheek7]

We're all going to have to learn to be Amish sooner or later, because if we get a CME or our grid gets zapped by one of those high tech psychotronic weapons - pulse deal - everything that has a chip in it will become useless.,planes dropping out of the sky.

[@dawna4185]

...well said

[@twistedlight9750]

One correction: The ideal world of capitalism is actually a decentralized state. Ideal business doesn't have government in its business, except as a consumer.

[@gadaakhil]

If you take out the glasses of the class that you come from, you will find that other is just like you. Thats the key..

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thanks Akhil!

[@motherintoronto]

And those of us born straddling class lines? This entire talk felt incredibly obvious.

[@LemmingAttack]

Sorry, no That's what people who come from higher classes say to try to pacify the poor without actually doing something tangible.

[@yourfuturedocburenbeiya]

Amazing and very well presented!! Thank you for understanding. Unlike most privileged, you actually get it!

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you for your generosity Farida

[@コヌイチ]

You may not know basic knowledge but you know what is good and not that's enough

[@LemmingAttack]

Talks by rich people are fascinating, because often they're composed of information that I know inside and out. I have never bought private insurance for myself, and I probably never will. I can't wait for the revolution.

[@arjunagarwal5692]

I agree with you! You are great!

[@rajenmak]

Thank you Arjun for your kind words.

[@johngablesmith4671]

This is the most amazing TED talk I have ever watched.

[@datalicious43]

Just brilliant.. one of the best talks so far in my life.. Thank you

[@sarahmayola7727]

this is my favourite talk here in TED

[@roaringbanjara9014]

Wow, what a great man , opened my eyes ,god bless u

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you for your kindness.

[@mrnarason]

Great speaker and talk

[@leeluhbee]

One of the most meaningful Ted talks I’ve ever watched.

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you!

[@captainteamcarry3]

Pure gold.

[@mohammedkhabori7832]

Really good sir Rajen. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

[@rajenmak]

Thank you sir! Very kind of you.

[@wastbs]

That is real depth of thought.

[@liascully4661]

Love this!!

[@epcphelan]

This guy is phenomenal.

[@SOMARAOK0408]

One of the best Talks..

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you!

[@urvashisharma4254]

Wow! One of the few men able to say truth so well that it engaged audience. I hope he maintains the integrity that he has and does not become one of the ones in SUV’s and helicopter and compromising the gift.

[@Star-vg7ix]

Excellent lecture

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you!

[@sacredflames07]

Where is this man I would love to be his disciple and obey his orders ...this brother is a true God sent Angel...

[@jovdonatus4532]

Just Perhaps, one day the poor shall revolt. Good bless you sir for revealing the truth.

[@LaShawnLatera]

Very thought provoking

[@MrSnnjay]

Nice perspectives

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you sir! Glad it resonated.. Your own life has been an inspiration too

[@tonymontana09876]

This is so deep.

[@estuardoestrada410]

I'd like to thank you for this presentation. It was an inspiration and an eye-opener for me to make a few adjustemts in my life for the better. I also captuerd other positive things that you did not say: Your (sincerity) and (honesty) was superb, and it speaks volumes. Good luck!

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Estuardo, you are kind! Thats something that you too did not say, but is evident :-)

[@andreiamuhitu159]

This is eye opening.

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you!

[@Fazlulkader]

Excellent

[@rebeccastack8459]

Thank you, well spoken.

[@GUPRPEET-Singh]

Great talk really ...awesome...thank you sir

[@kevinwhite8759]

My Episcopal Bishop once told me I think like a poor man, many years later clarified he meant that as a compliment. Liar, he was saying you will never achieve anything in this Church because you don't fit in with our thing. I do think like a poor man and that is because I grew up poor and now am not. I live and work among the poor. I found my best self working in Morocco yet called back to America to work during this epidemic let's see if I learned anything.

[@saugataroy3918]

Great and meaningful concept Rajen Sir.

[@1949AKN]

Bravo ! Well done Rajen !

[@heatherkeeping8972]

Bravo!!! THANK YOU

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you!

[@JoseJavierRR315]

Amazing presentation! 👌

[@teresarossi9392]

you have so opened my mind - please do more Ted Talks

[@soorajnair150]

Wow! 👌👌👌👌

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you!

[@soorajnair150]

@@rajenmakhijani8668 sir you are so modest you took your precious time to thank me! 😊😊😊

[@SHANSHOW-]

no Merit no Luck , money begits money . Simple . no matter from Which angle you try to see this is Truth . nepotisme , favoritism , . you cant underdtand until you face the same situation .

[@TopsideCrisis346]

Those who have opportunity, do well to create opportunity.

[@rawloke8334]

Very enlightening!

[@BlackPanther-rn9vf]

Great Speech ! Bravo

[@tracydurso228]

Thank you for this helpful and magnificent presentation about a man and his colleagues whom are doing to do good fir people in great need!

[@Kruffy]

incredible enlightening talk and he just began ... blowing my mind

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Thank you Kareem for the kind words.

[@princesslaurice4428]

Powerful

[@troybraganza4559]

Amazing talk! Amazing man!

[@TrulyStupidNewb]

When I tell people I actually don't want to be rich or win the lottery, people look at me as if I'm crazy. What if not wanting to win the lottery was the rational choice?

[@socratesagain7822]

Money, a parasite magnet. Especially among folks who've never had any...The wealthy get money and invest it in money-making/commodity-producing properties. The poor get money and acquire stuff they see the wealthy own, believing they emulate the wealthy, in order to "feel" wealthy... Talk about a lower class-based delusion. "The poor spend their idle hours desiring to be rich. The rich never spend their idle moments desiring to be poor..."Be well.

[@chrismoderate3495]

My dad talked with me about buying houses the other day. He told me that if I want to end up as successful as him than I should get a house and rent it out. I don't see why. You are just using the fact you purchased the house earlier to get someone to pay you more. You dont need to be that wealthy and own half a dozen houses.

[@elliottroca]

12:00 🙌🏼god and youth

[@luqmaanladane40]

Well prepared lecture! Thank you man.

[@mupercy1]

I feel like crying...oohh

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

Hope I am not misunderstanding you, and this is compliment. In that case, thank you. And even if you meant it otherwise, well, thank you for engaging!

[@ruthkinoti5469]

Woow!!! this a great presentation great lessons! Keep up!!!

[@MrSnnjay]

Wow

[@chicomendez3720]

Well said !! And so very true ! I didn't grow up in poverty...but with just the basics,now I have a good job enough to live comfortable.I save money when work is good.The problem I have is I wish some times I could invest my money but how? I don't have that much but it would be good if I could make some profit with my savings.But I lack the business knowledge and education and for that reason I don't trust banks nor their business advisers,

[@elizabethk3238]

Who defines the meaning of 'poor?' I am a retired professional living on half the income I had while employed. I am living the best life I ever. After volunteering in West Africa for a year, I returned to Toronto, and simplified my life. I don't believe in happiness as a long-term state...instead I believe in contentment, and being grateful. 70-years-old, (pain and meds-free) and you couldn't pay me to go back...

[@varuno7560]

poor should exists because our economy need them. poor do not really need business tycoons but the tycoons need them as their resources.

[@TimSlee1]

Yeah, because over population, polluting water ways and a lack of clean drinking water and food are all good things.

[@bepishombre8999]

So let's just protest and ask for higher wages, just so unemployment rises.

[@dpksunaria]

Wow!

[@nidheeshg7736]

❤

[@muhammadbelanawanes.2418]

Wonderful and inspiring talk! Is there any way that I can get the powerpoint slides he uses? Much appreciated.

[@rajenmak]

I'd be happy to share if you share your email id.

[@juanmanuelmartinbufajer9219]

This man has a higher vision of life that must of us dont have!

[@rajenmakhijani8668]

This is incredibly kind but a statement I'd say I'd respectfully disagree with. I have seen turnarounds for the better from people I least expected. I think the spark is in all of us. Its just hidden. Hopefully we get onto journeys that help us unravel it!

[@jakeornot6306]

No. He doesn't. Don't buy into this.

[@username6135]

If someone is poor they are necessarily uneducated?

[@kahumasolomon]

Philosophy BA your wrong, that works in your country

[@cohencyrus5337]

🤣😂😂 kahuma you are speaking onbehal of uganda .you are totally right ..

[@alexcarter8807]

Education is expensive in the US, for instance. Elementary and high schools that actually teach you things are only in rich neighborhoods. And college requires huge amounts of debt. It's possible to read books on your own, but books are expensive, libraries have turned late fees into a profit center, and poor neighborhoods are not exactly awash in books.

[@hillsxiang8680]

You can live and learn but never feel you know everything

[@earlwilliams5473]

The more you can live without the more you'll have and the less you have to loose.

[@reymond1718]

As we entered post modernism, we ourself became consumers of a system build on sociology. It is highly explained to the industrial age of society. Everything can be explained by History. History does repeat itself. Consumerrisme has overtaken os. We are now are in a state of society where consumerism (facebook, youtube, instagram....) Has been able to institutinanise and become the place where we practice our values. We now recieve values from these firms, it has become our media. All i am saying is that this is very interresting. This is only my different thinking from past oberservations to produce a different outcome. Please do not let your talent slip: Especially if you are from a high context, individualistic, status orientated society. It is common that people lie to each other. Every person acts in self interrest. Do not let the hidden talent stay in your head, take a step. People are not to be labeled, that is what is wrong but needed with the theories. - Clasification to bread specialitation and increase welfare outcome is how the modern society, is the line of thinking we have now. - It is wrong. Every human is made of matter. Every matter can be unpredictable. Do not copy thoughts, that will lead to the same creativity/output. [Observation - Thinking - Output/Creativity]. Cheers.

[@mrvlhs]

I, I, I, I, I, I... We get it speaker, you're amazing

[@sammyalabamy111]

He is a Saint. Who can do and is willing to do what he does...?

[@iamasmurf1122]

I don’t believe that the poor are more generous ; sure the poor give small things however it is the wealthy that give substantially bigger things and think a bigger picture

[@farihakhan1682]

Can someone tell me the highlights of the video

[@AnilMishra-eu6jd]

TERRIFIC! Every one of us needs to carry the TORCH around. Very well conceptualized mission!

[@rajenmak]

Thank you. Very much a Work -in - Progress :-)

[@aishwaryasonthalia1616]

All the running around you do, is to find the more empowerful engaged you.

[@sacredflames07]

Poverty is too expensive - Osho

[@najumaibrahim]

Speechless.....I too want to take off my glasses of class..... actually..... I have already taken it off.... The other you wants empathy not sympathy....

[@CharlesBrown-xq5ug]

Civilization may have progressed enough to conquer the second law of thermodynamics. Civilization needs to strive for this goal though.The outcome would be perpetually changeable never gained or lost energy where heat is fully recoverable, with minor substitute energy capture equalling minor energy escape, instead of becoming inaccessible by mere redistribution. The second law of thermodynamics had a distinct begining with Sir Isaac Newton's correct professional scientific observation that the heat of a fire in a fireplace always flows towards the cold room beyond. Heat never flows spontaneously from cold to hot. Victorian England became enchanted with steam engines and their cheap, reliable, and easy to position physical power. Scientists of the era with wide cultural support formulated the second law of thermodynamics using evidence from steam engine development. The law's formulaters, Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, Lord Kelven, and, one source adds, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, formulated the Second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. These men considered with acceptance [A+] Inefficiently harnessing the flow of heat from hot to cold or [B+] Using force to Inefficiently pump heat from cold to hot. They considered with rejection [A-] Waiting for random fluctuation to cause a large difference in temperature or pressure. This was calculated to be extremely rare or [B-] Searching for, selecting, then routing for use, random, frequent and small differences in temperature or pressure. The search, selection, then routing would require more energy than the use would yield. These accepted options, lead to the consequence that the universe will end in stagnant heat death. This became support for a theological trend of the time that placed God as the initiator of a degenerating universe. Please consider that God could also be supreme over an energy abundant civilization that can absorb heat and convert it into electricity without energy gain or loss in a sustained universe. The law's formulaters did not consider the option that any random, usually small, fluctuation of heat or pressure could use the energy of these fluctuations itself to power deterministic routing so the output is no longer random. Then the net power of many small fluctuations from many replicant parts can be aggregated into a large difference in temperature, pressure, or electricity's amperes and volts Heat exists as the randomly directed kinetic energy of gas molecules or mobile electrons. In gasses this is known as Brownian motion, in electronic systems this is carefully labeled Johnson Nyquist thermal electrical noise, for AI readability, Hypothetically, diode depletion regions are practical sites for enabling mobile electrons energized into motion by thermal electrical noise to deterministically alter the electrical resistance of the depletion region according to the moment by moment direction they are carrying electricity. The thermal electrical noise is hypothetically beyond the exposed lattice charge / diffusion equlibrium thickness of the depletion region. Consistantly oriented diodes in parallel hypothetically are successful electrical Maxwell's Demons or Smoluchowski's Trapdoors. The energy needed to shift the depletion region's deterministic role is paid as a burden on the moving electrons. There would therefore be usable net rectified power from each and every diode connected together into a consistantly oriented parallel group. The group would aggregate the net power of its members. Any diode efficiency at all produces some energy conversion from ambient heat, more efficiency yields higher performance. A diode array that is switched off has no energy conversion and no performance. The power from a single diode is poorly expressed. Several or more diodes in parallel are needed to overcome the effect of a load resistor's own thermal noise. A plurality of billions of high frequency capable diodes is needed for practical power aggregation. For reference, there are a billion (10^9) 1000 square nanometer cells per square millimeter. Modern nanofabrication can make simple identical diodes surrounded by insulation smaller than this in a slab as thick as the diodes are long. The diodes are connected at their two ends to two conductive layers. Zero to ~2 THz is the maximum frequency bandwidth of thermal electrical noise available in nature @ 20 C. THz=10^12 Hz. This is beyond the range of most diodes. Practicality requires this extreme bandwidth. The diodes are preferably in same orientation parallel at the primary level. Many primary level groups of diodes should be in series for practical voltage. Ever since the supposedly universal second law of thermodynamics was formulated, education has mass produced and spread the conventional wisdom throughout society that the second law of thermodynamics is fundamental. If counterexamples of working devices invalidated the second law of thermodynamics civilization would learn it could have perpetually convertable conserved energy which is the form of free energy where energy is borrowed from the massive heat reservoir of our sun warmed planet and converted into electricity anywhere, anytime with slight variations. Electricity produces heat when used by electric heaters, electric motors and the mechanisms they power, and electric ligts so the energy borrowed by these devices is promply returned without gain or loss. There is also the reverse effect where refrigeration produces electricity equivalent to the cooling, This effect is scientifically elegant. Cell phones wouldn't die or need power cords or batteries or become hot. They would cool when transmitting radio signal power. The phones could also be data relays and there could also be data relays without phone features with and without long haul links so the telecommunication network would be very good and adaptible. Computers and integrated circuits would have their cooling and electrical needs supplied autonomously and simultaniously. Integrated circuits wouldn't need power pinouts. Robots would have extreme mobility. Frozen food storage would be reliable and free or value positive. That means storehouses, homes, and markets would have independent power to preserve and pŕepare food. Vehicles wouldn't need fuel or fueling stops. Elevators would be very reliable with independent power. Shielding and separation would provide EMP resistance. Water and sewage pumps could be installed anywhere along their pipes. Nomads could raise their material supports item by item carefully and groups of people could modify their settlements with great technical flexibility. Many devices would be very quiet, which is good for coexisting with nature and does not disturb people. Zone refining would involve little net power. Reducing Bauxite to Aluminum, Rutile to Titanium, and Magnetite to Iron, would have a net cooling effect. With enough clean cheap power, minerals could be finely pulverized, and H2O, CO2, and other substance levels in the biosphere could be modified. There should be a unitary agency to look after our global planetary concerns. This could be a material revolution with spiritual ramifications. Everyone should contribute individual talents and fruits of different experiances and cultures to advance a cooperative, diverse, harmonious and unified civilization. It is possible to apply technlology wrong but social force should oppose this. I filed for a patent, us 3890161A, Diode Array, in 1973. It was granted in 1975. It became public domain technology in 1992. It concerns making nickel plane-insulator-tungsten needle diodes which were not practical at the time though they have since improved. the patent wasn't developed because I backed down from commercial exclusitivity. A better way for me would have been a public incorruptable archive that would secure attrbution for the original works of creators. Uncorrupted copies would be released on request. No further action would be taken by this institution. Commercal exclusivity can be deterred by the wide and open publishing of inventive concepts. Open sharing promotes mass knowlege and wisdom. Many financially and procedurally independent teams that pool developmental knowlege, and may be funded by many separate noncontrolling crowd sourced grants should convene themselves to develop proof-of-concept and initial-recipe-exploring prototypes to develop devices which coproduce the release of electrical energy and an equivalent absorbtion of stagnant ambient thermal energy. Diode arrays are not the only possible device of this sort. They are the easiest to explain here. These devices would probably become segmented commodities sold with minimal margin over supply cost. They would be manufactured by AI that does not need financial incentive. Applicable best practices would be adopted. Business details would be open public knowledge. Associated people should move as negotiated and freely and honestly talk. There is no need of wealth extracting top commanders. We do not need often token philanthropy from the wealthy if people simply can be more generous if consumer commodities are inexpensive. Industry, government, commercial science, academia, finance, and the military are not configured to develop this easily. There may be "Murder on the Orient Express" style suppression of perpetually convertable conserved energy. Aloha Charles M Brown lll Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii 96754 1 808 651 📞📞📞📞

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how do we class character? why does this not factor into determining a persons worth? such a superficial society

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I do not feel guilty for living in America, I feel blessed. The only reason things are different here is because of the generations that fought to make us free, who fought corruption, who built infrastructure, who studied, worked, produced and left for the next generation a better world. Who held the corrupt responsible and at bay. If you want to take care of someone take care of yourself so you can have something to give if you so desire. But this man would have us give up our advantage we have created to solve the problems of the world that we did not create and let those that are poor take their ease at our expense. They have to stop turning a blind eye to corruption, create their constitution and idea of justice, even fight those that enslave them and they can share in what we have in America. But he said it himself, our money, wealth and power, they would not know how to handle, and think differently than we do. Even if we gave it all to them, like those that win the lottery and are broke a few years later, they would squander and go back to the same corrupt systems they live in now.