LogFAQs > #975518694

The world isn't overpopulated. There's more than enough resources around for literally every single human on the planet to enjoy a life of (relative) comfort at bare minimum.

However humanity has collectively decided to allow resources to be hoarded and wasted in, frankly, unfathomably large quantities, because Reasons (most of which boil down to Selfishness at the root, whether its their own personal comfort or their own desires). As a result many people, if not the majority, live in a world of artificially induced scarcity, and allow it because it's too inconvenient to fix it.

For example, there's ~16 million vacant homes in the US atm. There's about ~600k homeless people. Quick math says there's literally TWENTY-SIX houses per homeless person. Even if 80% of the vacant houses are in horrible condition, that's still 2+ houses per person, with room left over.

Food is no better. We all know that tons of people starve every day. How many of you know just how much edible food gets straight up wasted and thrown out? A quick google search says

How much food waste is there in the United States? Each year, 119 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States. That equates to 130 billion meals and more than $408 billion in food thrown away each year.

That's JUST the US, and just from our current production capabilities (which can/will also be improved). It's fucking disgusting that ANYONE ever has to miss a meal.

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TL:DR, there's not a scarcity of resources, just a scarcity of goodwill.