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What about explaining that within their lifetime technology might great improve the quality of their life
As with the previous, it depends on the person, but if you don't know that this is the sort of argument they're already sympathetic to, this is probably not a good approach.
Suicidal people rarely have technology problems, and when they do, that's the most popular form of suicide. They have people problems, and it is in no way clear that technological growth will help with those.
Sexbots, I predict, will mitigate the "people problems" of a huge number of men.
That's interesting. I would predict the exact opposite. The improvement from self-gratification to sexbot is not aimed at the deficiency that I would label "people problems."
Sufficiently wealth people already get all the sex they want to pay for. That's not evidence that the wealthy do not suffer from people problems.
Sexbots will be to people problems as candy is to hunger.
That statement I could agree with, but I think it contradicts your earlier assertion (depending a large amount on what you meant by "mitigate").