There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.
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