Imagine you were born in the year 3090.
A millennium and sixty-six years from 2024. In the thirty-first century, humankind would have probably been able to have advanced astronomically in every area.
From science to religion, education, healthcare, travel, technology, business, and whatnot.
We may even have added space travel, colonising other planets, teleportation, impeccable gene editing, and human cloning to the list. Please allow your imagination to run wild. Think about finance, for instance.
Maybe that year, humankind will be so rich that conversations about poverty reduction surely ended about seven centuries ago. What that would mean is that you would be in a world that suffers from an affluent dilemma or wealthy conundrum. In simpler terms, “rich people problems.”
That is a possibility because, while wealth can provide many advantages and opportunities, it does not shield individuals from facing various challenges and problems.
More money, more problems—remember?
When this happens, you may hastily think that becoming poor may have fewer troubles.
Which is quite understandable.
After all, not having actual knowledge of what impoverishment is like (being born in a poverty-less era), you may mistakenly think it is a viable option.
Bear in mind that in 3090, humankind may have totally eradicated the external factors that may cause poverty.
Such as discrimination, inequality, natural disasters (because man would have the technology to control even the environment), social exclusion, and geographic factors like living in places with a high cost of living, unemployment, etc.
So you head over and speak to some kind of advanced artificial intelligence about actionable steps you can take on your own to get the results you need.
Your question will be, ‘Jarvis? How does one become poor?’
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