We could house everyone. We could feed everyone. We could care for everyone. We could build devices designed to last as long as possible. We could align our manufacturing around the needs of the people and the planet.
We materially have the resources to do so.
That's why leftists are so angry. The resources we need to build a world everyone can thrive in literally already exist. We are just using them mostly to pamper the rich or murder the poor.
Economics texts, courses and professors will tell you that economics is the study of maximizing the distribution of scarce goods.
Was once...
Now, economics is the study of preventing the distribution of plentiful goods.
We pretend we have the capacity of Orville and Wilbur Wright, while our roving science pets send us selfies from Mars.
Show our guest to quarters Mr. Crusher.
