[lewaldman]

> We would still have to solve the politics of applying those technological advances uniformly rather than the benefit of a relatively small percentage of the species.

This is solved already... Capitalism makes it work across time.

(What is discovered now will with most certainty be available specie-wide in a couple of decades... and it's accelerating).

[aeternum]

Capitalism is the best we have so far, and I am very pro-capitalist, but it is far from an ideal solution.

There is lots of unfairness and non-uniformity in the system, for example where you are born matters much more than it should.