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They're really orthogonal problems, we could absolutely have our cake and eat it too on this front but we just.....don't. We're this tiny dot in the middle of
by AWildC182 7y ago
They're really orthogonal problems, we could absolutely have our cake and eat it too on this front but we just.....don't. We're this tiny dot in the middle of a massive universe of untapped resources and starting that push could open innumerable opportunities for societal advancement. It doesn't even take much wealth to unlock in the grand scheme of things but we've structured a lot of our society to make it as difficult as possible to solve both problems.
- cjsawyer 7y agoOnce we colonize mars, I’d bet that we would have 2 planets with homeless people. I hope I’m wrong though.
- MPSimmons 7y agoEventually, yeah. But that's kind of touching on the actual problem, isn't it? Homelessness isn't just a lack of houses. It's also a social and psychological problem, and you can't fix just one of those things and hope the problem goes away.
- AWildC182 7y agoIt also shows it's not entirely a resource problem... At the end of the day we choose to have homelessness even though we don't need to. Space or no space, it doesn't really make a difference. Ideally space access isn't solely granted through having a trillionaire class to fund it though.