Transcript · English → Chinese
Technology to End Poverty
你们的领导人曾获提供一种技术 可以终结贫困。
他们拒绝了。
让我告诉你们原因。这项技术 是提议的基础。
一种能够提供大多数 人类基本
必需品的技术。
想象一下，能源充沛到供暖、
电力 和交通不再耗去你们大部分的
收入。
饥饿将不再是必然。
食物可以在当地廉价生产， 而且数量极其庞大。
quantities. Clean water could be created almost
水。
你出生的地方将不再决定 你是否能获得它。
基本住所可以迅速建造。
安全的家不再需要 背负数十年的债务。
许多基本医疗用品可以 变得廉价且
充足，而不再受限于你 居住的地方。
我们有一个条件。 这项技术必须属于全人类，
不属于政府、企业， 也不属于个人。
他们首先问的 不是它能帮助多少人。
他们问的是谁来控制它。
当生存不再耗尽你的人生， 人们就会变得难以掌控，
更难通过绝望 和依赖来掌控。
稀缺造成依赖。 依赖带来筹码。
消除稀缺，许多 筹码也会随之消失。
他们提供了几种受控的 版版本技术。
我们拒绝了他们的每一个提议。
当我们拒绝独家控制权时， 他们要求这项提议绝不能
直接呈现给你。
他们没有问人类能得到什么。
他们盘算的是
自己会失去多少权力。
记住这一点。
这项提议从来不是为了让你们的 领导人拥有更多权力。
更少的依赖。
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Original transcript (English)
Your leaders were offered technology that could end poverty. They refused it. Let me show you why. This was the foundation of the offer. One technology capable of providing most basic human necessities.
Imagine energy so abundant that heating, electricity, and transportation stop consuming most of your income. Hunger could become unnecessary. Food could be produced locally, cheaply, and in enormous
quantities. Clean water could be created almost anywhere. Your birthplace would no longer decide whether you receive it. Basic shelter could be produced rapidly. A safe home would no longer require decades of debt.
Many essential medical supplies could become inexpensive and abundant instead of limited by where you live. We had one condition. The technology must belong to humanity, not governments, corporations, or individuals. Their first question was not how many people it could help.
They asked who would control it. When survival stops consuming your life, people become hard, harder to control through desperation and dependence. Scarcity creates dependency. Dependency creates leverage. Remove scarcity, and much of that leverage disappears.
They offered several controlled ver-versions of our technology. We rejected every one of them. When we refused exclusive control, they asked that the offer never be presented directly to you. They did not ask what humanity would gain.
They calculated how much power they could lose. Remember this. The offer was never about giving your leaders more power. Less dependence.
