What is the solution to the current world problems?
What is the solution to the current world problems?
I am asking this question, because there does not seem to be a modern logical solution.
I hear a lot of people say that socialism might solve a lot of problems, but I don't think it has any practicality.
Looking at jobs hiring trends, a lot of businesses are almost stopping their hirings, in favour of investing in automation. Which means 5-10 years down the line, "worker owned" might be closer to fiction.
AI is replacing a lot of jobs now and while the trend that new technologies create jobs, I think that jobs might come after 15-40 years.
Are humanity hopeless?
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There is no one solution that applies to multiple unspecified problems.
Pick a specific one if you want actual discussions and answers.
Overcoming capitalism and creating a socialist federal global republic solves all problems.
Climat change? Due to capitalism. Housing crisis? Due to capitalism. Polution? Due to capitalism. Racism? Today it only exists because people get told to fear for their live and their lively hood being taken away but if that is secured there is nothing that can be manipulated with fear.
Wars? Cant have wars if its all one united federalised republic.
Corruption? Due to capitalism. Uneducated? Due to capitalism. Trump and his friends? Capitalism! Poverty? You guessed it! :D
- Human suffering.
- Climate Change.
Human suffering is such a uselessly broad, wide sweeping range of things and happenings that you may as well have said "bad things."
OK, let us try again here.
Poverty and hunger.
Replace all the social services your country has with a guaranteed basic income. Everyone gets it and it doesn't run out like unemployment benefits. Another benefit, unlike welfare, is the person can keep working.
guaranteed basic income
This has been studied a lot of times and mostly there is usually 2 concerns:
- How you will finance the whole thing?
- How do people act when you give them extra money?
Now, for the first concern: I had never seen anyone even answer it theoretically.
For the second concern: there is a mixed results, some studies suggest that people productivity gets lower, others suggest otherwise.
I don't see this even applied in a small village.
Just to be clear, I am talking about the widely known UBI, there is NIT and even other universal welfare schemes. IMO, even other universal welfare schemes has their own set of unsolved issues, and very experimental and idealistic in nature.
Why is it that the question of finance is ALWAYS one of the first hurdles when discussing things like climate change and social services, but somehow when it's for the military or Nazi Gestapo, the money magically materializes?
There exists more than enough money to fund it. We just need to extract it from the billionaires who are hoarding it.
Here is a map of basic income pilot programs from around the world.
Not only has it been studied, the studies have been taking place for over fifty years. Universal basic income is cheaper in practice than the numerous other social programs that help people who either can't work, shouldn't work or can't work enough to afford their needs.
In a lot of cases the people who choose to work less do so because they have children, health issues or dependants.
Hugh Segal, Canadian Senator was in charge of a UBI study many years ago. He stated that if all of our government handouts, over 60 at the time, were replaced by a UBI the country would save several billion dollars.
I'll try to find that study.