Either way, without that social pattern, I'm afraid all this does is enshrine a type of futuristic serfdom that is completely insurmountable.
A total shift of human mentality. Humans have shown time and again there is only one way we ever get there. A long winding road paved with bodies.
> Less than 5% of the US’ military budget could end world hunger for a year. [1]
My friend we live in 1984, when the main character discovers that eurasia and others have enough food / resources to help everybody out but they constantly fight/lessen it just so that people are easy to be manipulated in times of war.
I discovered this 5% statistic just right now and its fucking wild. US itself could end world hunger 20 times but it spends it all on military. I don't know if its wrong or not but this is fucking 1984. The big brother has happened. We just don't know it yet because the propaganda works on us as well, people in 1984 didn't know they were living in 1984.
And neither do we.
Have a nice day :)
Sources [1]: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/hunger-global-citiz...
Despite the cynical pessimistic tone of my comment I don't think its necessarily that humans are bad. Humans do bad things but also we still do better than any other lifeform we know of at helping each other at our own expense.
I don't think there is a good answer the same things that kept us alive as a species are what are now holding us back from becoming something better. I thinks humans will get there but like I said. Mountains of unnecessary preventable deaths first.
I genuinely believe we'll see technological world war 3 in my child's lifetime. And I'm not a super supporter of that.
You think that's going to change just because many more people find themselves without?
So: getting the whole world up to US standards of living is going to take a lot of changes to lifestyle or technological advances. Both of these are scarcity issues.
Why would the US's wasteful use of resources be the benchmark for "sufficiency"?
There's enough food to feed the world, and enough raw materials to produce the things we need. The problem is not scarcity of resources, it's distribution of resources.
