If you could solve one global problem tomorrow what would you solve?
Aaron O'Leary
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The world has a few different crises going on at the same time, if you could pick one to end tomorrow what would you choose?
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Aaron O'Leary@aaronoleary
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Toss up between pandemic and climate change for me.
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With my new platform you can solve problems for people, maybe they are not global but if it is about helping people here it is -> http://www.talendy.com
@alex_hernandez9 We need more users on your platform to actually work. Exceptional concept. Lit product. But do something about users.
@alex_hernandez9 @worklab Nice concept . We can surely scale this. If we make it open to Open source community they can make good use of it, even non profits and volunteer work can be done this way.
Basically earning karma is like a virtual currency. But most importantly there should be a way to benefit or use these coins, only then users would be incentivised. Do think on these lines
@worklab @balaji_rao1 You have a very interesting point of view! Open source community, brilliant, what I have in mind for the next step is to transfer it to schools so that teachers can positively assess their students based on what they have helped others, I see that it is not rewarded enough.
That I would know how to carry it out, but I don't know how to reach open source people,
And virtual currency you mean like crypto?
Right now only can make posts if you have karma coins, if not you have to help someone that is the incentive.
Thanks for your lines, i've loved your feedback
@worklab @alex_hernandez9 By virtual currency i referred to Karma coins.
You can reachout to Open source folks on their project slack groups, discord etc. You can check them out on Github too.
The students usecase is great too. Students can also give karma coins to get help in a test (Just joking)
You are doing great work Alex. In case you need any help related to Product, or strategy do feel free to reachout to me
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Childhood starvation. Definitely.
Right now, it's the pandemic.
Human stupidity...that's the spark of any problem!
Rivalries between countries
COVID 19
world hunger
Corrupted Politicians
Education.
There are many urgent, high-level problems in the world at any one time, but I feel the root cause is regularly due to lack of education or cultural understanding (a subset of education, in my book).
Some obvious problems, which we can clearly attribute to lack of cultural understanding:
* Conflicts
* Racism & Xenophobia
Some less obvious ones, which I think education can, indirectly, alleviate:
* Poverty
* Climate Change
* Pandemics
@richard_francis2 : Richard, you hit at the core of all this. Education should create sensible brains. Working on it with my coaching program which I call 'Spiritual Entrepreneurship' to counter existential as well as ecological crisis.
@richard_francis2 education is so important -- but what if all your educated people leave your country all the time?
inefficiency in organisations including Govt. and private
World hate
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Helping spread the population back to rural areas. We need more micro-cities that blend & live harmoniously with nature.
@gabe__perez : Density is dangerous in many ways. Let me know if you are working on this and if I can be of any help.
Healthcare
Energy, I think it's the source of most human problems
@dkaravias I guess you have to be more specific - do you mean fighting over natural resources?
@j1j8 I mean that most challenges we face arise from the need for more energy.
If we had abundant energy (imagine a safe, clean source providing practically infinite energy - like a mini sun here on earth) then the following will be resolved:
Wars: Obviously wars for oil end, but also wars for other natural resources. The anticipated water wars won't happen if we can clean/desalinate as much as we like (these are too energy intensive now).
Climate change, pollution, health problems caused by the modern urban environment.
Hunger: Addressable if you can transport food easily in a crisis (transport is an energy problem as much as it is logistical). You can grow more food when farmers aren't dependent on scarce fuel for their machines so crisis become less likely in the first place (especially when the environment isn't getting destroyed from fossil fuel). Energy also helps you store it in better conditions for longer and cook/process food.
Health: Apart from pollution-related health issues: In developing countries hospitals rely on their own expensive backup generators since the grid is unstable. Transporting medicine and patients is difficult. All these are dependent on energy.
Education: With peace, food, transport solved children can spend more time at school. Kids in Africa don't need to walk 4 hours a day since more energy enables more schools to be built and cheaper transport. More people educated -> more brains solving the rest of our problems.
And the list goes on.
Most of these issues aren't going to be 100% solved, but I believe enough tipping points would be reached, and enough combined efficiencies realised, that life on planet earth could become amazing!