Poverty is a consequence of sin.
Not a direct one-to-one consequence. A person in poverty is not always poor as a consequence of his own sin.
But poverty’s existence (in general) is a consequence of sin … greed, envy, war, etc.
Neither AI nor robots can change the human heart and eliminate sin.
Even the AI that I’ve questioned is “smart” enough to say that no, it cannot eliminate sin.
Poverty can also be a mental thing too.
Many of us know people who immediately get rid of any money that they may come into. Lottery winners are notorious for this.
There are also people who take a vow of poverty, because they want to focus on nothing besides God.
So ELIMINATING poverty is not only impossible, but impractical.
That’s not to say that we shouldn’t always, with a charitable heart, seek to alleviate as much poverty as we can.
We absolutely should.
But alleviate is not the same as eliminate.
Christ said: “The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.”
So to believe that man (or his tools) will ELIMINATE poverty is to say that Jesus was lying to us.
