I believe this conflict stems from: * Lack of opportunity (especially for the poor) * Conflation of race (looks) and subculture with general oppression of the

I believe this conflict stems from: * Lack of opportunity (especially for the poor) * Conflation of race (looks) and subculture with general oppression of the population rooted in the economic divide. * Targeting portions of the population in a self re-enforcing feedback loop of further isolation and lost opportunity. * Lack of civic planning and political leadership towards ends that improve the outcome for as many as possible as much as possible. * Lack of a clear goal or set of goals to work towards globally, let alone locally. The most obvious global projects for improving everyone's experience are: * Ending hunger (surplus of food) * Increasing available (useful) energy to improve quality of life. * Science fiction projects in space could be a good use of productivity. * * Robots mining the asteroid belt. * * Orbital elevators and a ring around the planet. (Useful as a platform for communications, energy transmission, and solar arrays.)