This is so much in alignment with what I believe! I really liked the way you put it at the very beginning, "invest in people before the market catches on". Really the rest of the article is all contained within those first 2 paragraphs, but then you proceed to flesh it out. When you say things like:

in the end you actually missed out on every opportunity that the downtrodden missed out on. Someone who can't find work is someone who can't offer you the products and services that they would be making if they had a job.

So true! There's so many people in India, say, who are in poverty. So many that it's practically guaranteed that there's an Indian Einstein somewhere in their midst. We're right now missing out on all of his discoveries. And when I say "we" I include rich people. And there's no way to ascertain the value of those discoveries. It could be something of equal importance to the internet, it could be a way to navigate space much quicker, almost-free energy, eternal life, no one knows, it's beyond what we can estimate. But the rich would rather be "first in a village than second in Rome", would rather be Kings of a hut than regular citizens in a futuristic Eden.

I liked certain parts more than others, for whatever reason. I liked the Nash Equilibrium section for instance. And I liked the personal touch at the end, coupled with what I consider to be the number one moral priority in the world right now: scientific immortality. Cicero said something along the lines of "to study philosophy is to prepare yourself for death", implying perhaps that a philosopher's top achievement is making peace with death. I always thought this a very narrow-minded view of what philosophy does (obviously). As a philosopher I never bothered with death. It was the farthest thing from my mind. Until I discovered the possibility - nay, probability - of scientific immortality! "What? Rats are already living 5 times longer?!! What, there are species that don't age, they only die because they get eaten?!! You mean to say, death isn't a necessary part of life?!!" Right then and there I knew defeating death should be the world's top priority. "More important than climate change?" Yes, more important than climate change. Because today it's climate change, yesterday it was the cold war and subsequent threat of nuclear annihilation, tomorrow it will be some other stupid thing. The real cause behind it all is immaturity. We only live to ~80 years old. Humanity is still in its nonage years. I may be wrong, but right now I trace all human problems back to youth, like Nietzsche did with Jesus, "he didn't live long enough". Religion? How long can a radical Muslim really remain radical? Let him live 100 years longer, and we'll see how much of his absolutist fire remains.

I'm gonna upvote this cos I don't see my vote arriving via streemian anytime soon.