Reminder: in 2025, the UN estimates that spending $93 B / year would be sufficient to end world hunger by 2030. This is roughly a third of the amount of money that companies have set on fire driving the AI bubble.
When the fossil fuel industry does a flight of capital & launders their money through an American technofascist oligarchy, there are no half measures.
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-taking-over-texas-pollution-could-be-catastrophic/
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
A $1 billion fund for a malign influence campaign
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-energy-industry-ai-fossil-fuels-pittsburgh-summit/
@david_chisnall It is never too expensive to solve real social problems.
The problem is, it comes at the cost of billionaires owning more stuff. Can't deny them their precious things.
I am convinced that greed is by far, the worst sin. I'm not even religious, but greed is pure evil.
@david_chisnall During the syrian war, the Damascus government used UN aid to its strategic advantage, stealing supplies, only allowing convoys to enter areas where it was to their benefit. As soon as the war ended, the hunger did.
Are there any instances where lack of money to buy food is the actual problem? If so, which ones?
@david_chisnall Of course, most of that AI money isn't real even by modern banking standards. It's the same made-up money (debts and share valuations) being passed round and round. Still, the comparison is striking.
@david_chisnall AND… 1/3 of what this regime is spending on the war in Iran so far.
@david_chisnall it was never a question of can, it's a matter of will.
