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Eating is trivial; charities can feed people for <$1000 per day. Living space is also cheap; the only reason you need more than a 2m * 1m * 1m horizontal cupboa
by vbuterin 13y ago
Eating is trivial; charities can feed people for <$1000 per day. Living space is also cheap; the only reason you need more than a 2m * 1m * 1m horizontal cupboard is a combination of government restrictions and psychological factors which are arguably waning. It's really medical care that's the huge elephant in the room IMO. That's the big problem, and the one I haven't yet seen too many projects try to tackle. I have a feeling it'll come in due time, but it'll take more advanced innovations like chemprinting and nanotechnology to get there.
- hershel 13y agoThe problem with healthcare is 1. Politics that prevent innovation, i.e. regulation. 2. Disruptive innovations, i.e. innovations that trade quality for cost have negative view by consumers relative to other industries. Change those ,and tomorrow we can have a serious reduction in costs, and within a decade or two a huge amount of cost reducing innovation. BTW 1 and 2 can be partially solved by targeting poor countries with disruptive innovations , letting them improve and prove their quality there, and then transfer them to the 1st world.