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> 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
by 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.