This post is a continuation to: Solving the Problem of Problem Solving
Einstein’s theory has huge holes in it but it was interesting enough and novel enough and explained things with enough confidence, for everyone to pick it up. And look at all the amazing things that came out of it, and still do.
Every solution (as long as it involves language) is a relative construct. So it doesn’t really matter how true or not it is, it just has to be really well thought and relevant to the times at hand. Because of the relativity aspect, it will all be ridiculed and “proven wrong” one day anyway and so on ad infinitum.
While we won’t be able to solve the poverty problem on our own, we can establish theory that will help solve it. Together with the help of others, we can make people believe that it doesn’t have to be so. People don’t have to be so poor and suffer so much.
Like Darwin made people believe that god didn’t create Man on the 6th day and Einstein made people believe that there is this thing called space-time which causes this other thing gravity.