How can we change the world to a better place?

Question from the Internet:

“If you were a genius legendary scientist of the modern world who changed the world into a really better place, how would people react?”

I don’t really understand the question. If I could really change the world for a really better place and people had a better life, as a result, people would be happy.

Of course, there would be some who were jealous, and some would try to claim merit and respect for my work as if it was theirs, but overall, most people would be happy and content; after all, their life became better.

The problem is that nobody, not even the most genius scientists, can change the world for the better by themselves.

The world — the “human world” — is a network of people. We build the world and determine what unfolds in it through our mutual relationships and through all the activities we are doing.

And we also know by now that this “human world” is global, integrated, and totally interdependent.

So only together could we make the world a better place.

It is true that we need a method and some guidance in how to do it, but unless we all want to change the world into a better place; unless we know how to achieve this and we are all willing to make the necessary changes — changing ourselves and how we relate to each other so we could connect and cooperate above and against our inherently egocentric, subjective and individualistic nature — the world will never become a better place. Instead, we will continue to destroy everything, including ourselves.