fair, but transportation can be managed without a bunch of cars to a home if city planning wanted, and there are more efficient, even passive cooling solutions that were quietly forgotten about in favor of abusing air conditioning. these and shelter and food and all of the basic needs, peripheral life goals, and little discretionary luxuries could be met (easily) without waste, IF a country wanted to, and that state would be the entry to a new standard of middle class for many.uziq wrote:
quite a different proposition to “middle class lifestyle”, giving people basic shelter and a food supply. it’s people wanting access to 2 family cars parked outside a perfectly air conditioned home that is full of plastic consumables that is a steeper proposition.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
the planet could do that and more. not infinitely, obviously, but every living person on earth could be fed and comfortably housed if that's what power wanted.
and the idea we could house everyone sounds a lot like communism to me. a much harder sell than “we need to fix the retirement system so that it doesn’t depend on pension contributions from nonexistent gen alpha workers”.
but people want to hoard wealth, and people without wealth protect wealth hoarders on the off-hand chance they too can accumulate wealth, and you're a communist if you disagree with them.
