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The rich and powerful aren't a single bloc all pushing the same perspectives. That sounds a bit too much like conspiracy theories for my taste.

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agreed, however they are also the ones who own the media and platforms that enable others to push similar agenda.

and, in a number of nations, they own the politicians who are also pushing similar agenda

It's not only the rich and powerful that are strong on propaganda and misinformation, though.

A bit simplistic. If someone or some corporation gets rich through (for instance) selling fried chicken, they're gonna want as many people as possible to have enough money to buy their product. Starving people don't drive capitalism forward.

Curing all disease would likely result in the extinction of 99% of life on earth due to over population. So obviously the first option is better. Plus if the money is fairly distributed, the economy would begin thriving again

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It's the problem of scarcity IMO. The human brain isn't built to compute the scale of our world. We've built an economic model not designed to handle shocks to the system due to people over buying resources out of fear.

You'd be surprised what people can do when they come together and just do something. I say you'd be surprised because it's utterly uncommon near-completely to find nowadays. That's what makes psychology so interesting; you begin to understand the behind-the-scenes of the human condition of each and every walk of life. You know why something does or doesn't happen, and you know why it will continue to happen or not happen.

While nobody likes the idea of being slave to their instincts as we put a lot of money on independence and uniqueness, denial of that fact, and the comfort such denial provides, is ironically an instinct many humans immediately default to. Another irony is that the faulty humans known often as misanthropes are the best at getting past their instincts, and not enjoying seeing human instincts and their detrimental effects on societal outcome from outside the box of influence.

Time to feast

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Very true, not sure why you got downvoted. Someone must have misunderstood you

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> so long as we can rise above our tribal instincts

So. We don't have all the resources we need to solve the world's greatest problems then.

Not just agreement on which problems, but polar opposition on what is a problem and what isn't. I don't think it's completely surprising to imagine the wealthiest would see eliminating world hunger (in any humane way) as detrimental to their power and influence. They know very well they're better off with lots of starving people around.

This isn't really true of Humans as is the individuals, but ideally Humans as the brain of brains, the entity composed of the people that has it's own volition. And that I don't think we can fundamentally change in any meaningful way.

If a genie offered me the choice between eradicating all billionaires, and curing all disease, I know which I'd choose.

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There is only one tribal side that won't make nice because the other tribe is supposed to be a danger to them. I will say many of the issues can be fixed by science. But things like global warming aren't as cut and dry as people want to believe. The best thing we can do to reduce global warming is to raise up the global poverty rate significantly to where people everywhere live better lives.