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.
@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.
poverty makes for cheaper blowjobs.
@david_chisnall That's without even accounting for corruption.
The problem is more political than financial. But did you vote for someone whose programme promised to spend billions on another country? And do you really think they would get elected?
The sad thing is, fixing it would also bring down food prices and lower refugee applications in developed countries, for less money than most other approaches.
@david_chisnall @creideiki I thought trillions were being spent on AI bubble.
How does 93B = 1/3? The fraction should be smaller?
@colinstu @creideiki $93B / year from 2025 to 2030.
@david_chisnall This makes me angry.
We have enough in this world for everyone to have their basic needs met.
@david_chisnall Would that be ~90B/year as an investment over time to improve infrastructure for agriculture and distribution , or ~90B/year to simply pay for the food?
In other words, if I had a 1T$ to put on this, would I then ”only” ease the burden for 10~12 years?
Or would 450B$ spent over five years solve the problems for the foreseeable future?
I might be misunderstanding, but I think they said previously something on the order of $6B/year to simply pay for the food and distribution, so I presume that this was a costed plan to build the infrastructure necessary to permanently eliminate the problem by 2030.
@david_chisnall @jordgubben That seems like it would be the case. Globally, enough food is produced for everyone to have enough. A lot of food goes to waste. If some people aren't getting enough, it's a money problem, a distribution problem, not really a production problem. Improve the distribution and more people get eats.
This makes me sad.
@david_chisnall I had similar thoughts about the energy transition.
@david_chisnall We're all going to have to do something about this ourselves. The people with that amount of money will have to learn to fear the rest of us. It's the only thing that can keep them in check.
@david_chisnall So a single trillionaire could keep the world from going hungry for a thousand years. Sad.
@cupz @david_chisnall Wait -- ten years, right?
(Skipping the "how much of billionaires/trillionares' money is number-games they play o call themselves bigger winners and justify being given more by society, and only ever existed in books and would disapear if it tried to be used practically" question.)
