<human>: Summarize the given text in a few sentences.

**Why are we as a people ok with positive change coming at such an alarmingly slow pace?** All over the world, people just the same as you and me, experience poverty, famine, and disease while someone pisses in a solid marble toilet. Someone down the street was just beaten for having skin that isn't quite the same color as the majority of people in his town. Don't we all look back at such atrocities as slavery and genocide and say "what were we thinking?" We all deserve a better place to live and a better society in which to function. It may be my rose colored lenses, but I think that we have only begun to scratch the surface of what we are capable of as a people... so lay it on me. If you could make a serious contribution or change to Earth's society as a whole, what would it be? **(Break down the barriers of the mind, they are why we're in this predicament in the first place)
<bot>: The world used to be a ridiculous place to live... it still is. How would you like to change it? (Big or Small)