Google and Facebook invest in drones

[Raz Tech]

The problem is that the current socio-economic structure doesn't allow there to not be a group of poor people.  More unfortunate is the fact that there is no simple solution to this class issue.  Communism has already proven to be flawed in many ways, and one of the few other options I can think of is the abolition of currency, which would be a lot like communism, not to mention virtually impossible in todays money-centric society.

I so like you for recognizing this issue with our current socio-economic structure, which many people don't see at all or cannot recognize the magnitude of. However, I have to point out that other economic systems have figured out ways of dealing with poverty in ways that have proven to be incredibly effective, primarily those which have utilized socialism in conjunction with capitalism.

Interesting, I'll have to do some reading on that.  I don't keep up with researching government things because the practice  makes me violently ill.

[Reginald Ret]

The global trend is toward the poor getting less poor. That extra cash has gotta go somewhere. Diamandis is a big-picture thinker. He's not too concerned with the way things currently are as much as where they're either headed or can be steered. In the end, he's worth a stack and his goal might not be pure altruism but he's one of a growing number of filthy rich fucks who've cottoned on to the idea that the more money the poor have, the more they can spend on the shit he's selling.

it never really occurred to me until just now that there are two classes of filthy rich fucks.  the ones who have something to sell and the ones who don't.  I think this means there's a bit of an inner conflict between the two - in that the ones who don't have anything to sell are served by keeping the poor poor while the one's who do have something to sell are served by making the poor not-so-poor. 

The second group essentially stealing from the first group - by filtering money through the poor.

That mental image has legs.