| No, we have the ability to produce more than enough food to provide for everyone sufficiently. The arguement of 'they can't afford it' is crap, because we can afford to feed them. Both individuals and society as a whole is missing the vast potential we have because of our desire for pure material acquisition, and the lack of appreciation of for other pursuits. The greatest leaps forward in the 20th century were made from the space race. And war... Both drove humanity to new levels of technology, excellence and comeraderie. And neither are profitable adventures (on the whole, war is good for a select minorities bank balance).
But we won't see such advances by society because of the ultra-individualist, anti-social attitudes that have been pushed by the neo-liberal agenda since the '80's.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |