This position is uncharacteristically short-sighted, @aral
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My position that a handful of billionaires aren’t actually working for the betterment of society for everyone. I’ll stick by it.
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That’s absolutely true, but I believe Elon truly does, just on an unorthodox scale. Tesla works to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. SpaceX works to make spaceflight more affordable, and literally back up humanity for an extinction level event.
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Then there’s OpenAI working towards safe AI and Neuralink working on brain-machine interfaces in the medical field. He isn’t doing this for shits and giggles, and throwing money at issues like hunger has never solved them.
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OpenAI has Peter Thiel on it.
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Nobody is 100% bad, right?
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The question is how much of your life are you willing to waste defending the ones that are 99% bad? And could that energy not be used for something more beneficial in general?
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I do know that Elon isn’t 99% bad. I barely know anything about Peter Thiel (other than that he co-founded PayPal and supports Trump) so I can’t form a real opinion. Any recommended reads?
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Aral, curing hunger would require a society wide change of attitude, one directly opposite to the conditioning that's been going on for at least the last 60 or 70 yrs. It would need to start with a more sustainable way of living, & folk being personally responsible & independent.
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Indeed. A change that is incompatible with the continued existence of multinational monopolies and billionaires.
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Well yeah, since they're the buggers responsible for the conditioning that moved us away from self reliance to relying on them & their unofficial front men in the first place! But they're so intertwined with govs now, it would not be an easy thing to achieve.
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There's no magical cure for hunger (unless you desire to reduce the world population - and even then it's only solving a part if the problem) so it's useless to demand this from a successful entrepreneur.
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“A price has been set and estimated by the United Nations to solve this crisis – $30 billion a year. It may seem like a large sum of money, but when compared to the U.S. defense budget – $737 billion in 2012 – $30 billion seems more attainable” https://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/ …pic.twitter.com/bXCYPJIGaO
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Since the UN chooses Saudi-Arabia and Turkey to be best representing their views on human rights I have my doubts on the veracity of their statements. By the way 30 billion would seem a rather small amount to solve world hunger (just over 4$ for every human).
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curing hunger is not a technological problem but a political one; we have more than enough food just many people can't afford it
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An issue of distribution rather than production. Which is square on the corporations, who would rather put food in the bin & have folk who lift it arrested for theft than feed those who are hungry.
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we pay government subsidies to farmers to NOT grow more food really makes you want to move to Mars when you think about it
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Next solar system but one, please, that might be far enough away!
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I'll have to agree with the other guy on this one. There's a balance to it, I believe: "producing to cure tomorrow"/"spending to cure today"
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There has to be an alternative Maslow pyramid in this ...
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