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Im endlessly fascinated by the cultural angle on technology of well being. We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine yet soci

Im endlessly fascinated by the cultural angle on technology of well being. We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine yet social determinism is the driving force in all these areas. There have been recent calls for the human population to hit a trillion people (by billionaires). The reasoning is we’d “have more einsteins” but personally Im way more worried about the genius physicist working in an amazon shipping center.

lostlogin 3y ago
> by billionaires I think you are right, the billionaires want minimum wage workers who are making less than a living wage.
armchairhacker 3y ago
> We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine yet social determinism is the driving force in all these areas. Do we? We have enough food, but not the logistics to distribute it. I doubt we produce enough of some medicines because they have constant shortages. Whether we have enough education depends on how you define it: I believe we have enough to give everyone access to online resources, but we have an education crisis in the US which is driven by unmotivated students, and the factors which are causing the lack of motivation cost much more (old-style teaching, large classes with disruptive students, poor school infrastructure, poverty at home). It's a social problem because I'm sure even if we had enough resources, there are people who would get in the way of distributing them, because they don't want people to be educated or feel they don't deserve assistance. Already we have countries which block parts of the internet, and countries at war which block aid. But I don't think it's only a social problem.
stuartjohnson12 3y ago
> We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine Access isn't binary, nor is it ever "solved". Every person in wealthy 1st world countries has access to enough food that they won't starve, access to secondary education to 16/18, and emergency medical care. I'm sure you would consider those things insufficient. A right asserted without any degree is pretty useless.

lostlogin 3y ago

> by billionaires I think you are right, the billionaires want minimum wage workers who are making less than a living wage.

armchairhacker 3y ago

> We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine yet social determinism is the driving force in all these areas. Do we? We have enough food, but not the logistics to distribute it. I doubt we produce enough of some medicines because they have constant shortages. Whether we have enough education depends on how you define it: I believe we have enough to give everyone access to online resources, but we have an education crisis in the US which is driven by unmotivated students, and the factors which are causing the lack of motivation cost much more (old-style teaching, large classes with disruptive students, poor school infrastructure, poverty at home). It's a social problem because I'm sure even if we had enough resources, there are people who would get in the way of distributing them, because they don't want people to be educated or feel they don't deserve assistance. Already we have countries which block parts of the internet, and countries at war which block aid. But I don't think it's only a social problem.

stuartjohnson12 3y ago

> We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine Access isn't binary, nor is it ever "solved". Every person in wealthy 1st world countries has access to enough food that they won't starve, access to secondary education to 16/18, and emergency medical care. I'm sure you would consider those things insufficient. A right asserted without any degree is pretty useless.