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10. Now a short one... sorry.
And, honestly, the only real solution for this problem is natural selection: you don't have access to food, you die. I know it's really harsh to hear/read this (it's really harsh for me to think about it, actually), but it's the only true solution I found for both, poverty and overpopulation.
Money is nothing if there won't be resources. Money is nothing if amassing number of starving people grab weapons to strike at choking with food aristocracy. Look what happened in 1789-1799 in France for instance (one of many over the centuries). If the gulf in number between poor masses and obscenely rich few will extend to extreme level the history might repeat. This time the only difference would be that army can stand in defence of aristocracy. But as I said if there's too huge gulf, and until robots don't replace labour in 100%, aristocracy would have to kill a great part of food industry workers.
Instead of wasting money people also can put it into technologies that provide food (and other resources) and better existence on the whole. It is being made all the time - that is because there are actually people both smart and rich that have a huge influence. A great example is the solar power industry.
Charity + constantly developing technology and organisation = fall in the number of hungry people in the world ( statistics ). And that isn't caused by their deaths due to starvation, because in these regions where the poverty and hunger were the most significant natality was the greatest, not to mention that the number of people is constantly growing in these regions, like on whole planet. It is the help of smart and wealthy people that know that it is important to keep the balance in the world at the very least. And adding some more to "keeping the balance" they know that it is important to help people that are less fortunate.
The Mars - it will start with tours of wealthy people. Enormous amounts of resources need to be used to make our way into the space. And in world as it is resources = money. Rich people will pay for the future colonisation of other planets by making their trips and buying territories on them.
And, honestly, the only real solution for this problem is natural selection: you don't have access to food, you die. I know it's really harsh to hear/read this (it's really harsh for me to think about it, actually), but it's the only true solution I found for both, poverty and overpopulation.
That seems like a point of view right from the Middle Ages. Optimal natality in places where the poverty and hunger are the most significant seems like a better solution than: "you don't have access to food, you die." Also now it's more like "you don't have access to food, we will help you producing it." That's what being made: developed countries are today instead of giving fish, giving the fishing rod. Look they are cooking fish and chips themselves:
There would be poor people on Earth and Mars (for instance), always.
That's obvious. And to fill this thought with what I argumented by this point: enough balance = extremely rich, wealth and poor people. It's not possible to skip this fracture of society. But not enough balance = starving people and extremely rich people – that’s something that would happen if your dystopian view of colonizing other planets would start to materialize. Smart and influential people will try to prevent that from happening.
Regarding this point, smart people, sadly, are nothing if they're not rich or have a patron.
Being smart is a very wide concept, don't you think? "I'm smart, because I know every single word in Klingon language and I'm nothing." Said once a nerdy nerd.