Yes, that’s exactly what’s happening.

It’s not right or wrong, it’s just the decisions we’ve made about the kind of world we choose to live in.

Think about other problems like hunger or health care in the United States. These are problems we have created for ourselves! We could choose to fix them and instead choose not to.

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prmph 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed, most of the problems in the worlds are there because we don't actually want to fix them.

There's more than enough resources to provide every single person a reasonable existence; We just don't think the homeless, for instance, should be freely helped to get housing. Nah, can't have that, how else can we point to "those" people as examples of the kind of life not conforming gets you?

We'd rather millions go to bed hungry instead of not propping up national markets by destroying food and providing subsidies.

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blargthorwars 8 hours ago | parent [-]

We make it hard on ourselves: With spare change, we could house every homeless person in a tent in a temperate environment in a remote location.

Instead, we house a tiny few in nice apartments in high COL cities.

	▲	kerningije 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The whole point of civilization is wealth inequality

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giardini 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"fix them"?! You mean throw millions of our dollars at other country's problems every year.

A million here, a million there, after awhile it starts to add up.

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pfisch 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Some problems are much easier to solve than others. The problems you are bringing up are far more intractable and far harder and more expensive to solve.

	▲	mindslight 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Domestic hunger is really not a hard problem to solve. Rice, beans, and vegetables cooked in bulk and handed out at every fire station.
	▲	paulcole 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		OK they’re harder but they’re also potentially more important and valuable to solve. They’re still solvable but we simply do not value solving them.