I was just thinking about this because we live in a world where nobody has to have HIV in the future and we can regrow teeth and have tons of renewable energy and could really transform into a post-scarcity society, but "maybe we can take care of people" is still the most left of left positions.

All the things you just mentioned will only be available to the rich

We should be in a post scarcity society now. We can 3d print homes, for goodness sakes!

Wait we can regrow teeth?!?

We’d better study UBI some more, too. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I have a simple rule of thumb about issues like this. If an enemy did this to us, would it be considered a warlike act? - starving people = bad - fouling people's water = bad - making people sick = bad - depriving people of housing = bad But if our own government does it, it's okay? HELL NO.

The guinea worm has been teetering on the edge of extinction for years as well. Only 14 people infected last year. We could see it go extinct in our lifetimes

Because people want The Rapture and Mad Max, which from some points of view might be the same.

With the insulation of privilege it can feel a lot nicer to assume that everyone already has all the rights they could possibly deserve or need than to admit how far we are from that.

It really shouldn't be. Like humans can choose to make things better at any time, and totally ignore that and just to make an imaginary number got up a bit more.

It's one of the things that raises my blood pressure, given how spoiled I was across the pond by a society that literally gives homeless people housing and even foreigners who get sick get treatment way cheaper than people here in the US with health insurance