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The world isn't overpopulated. The problem is a very small amount of people are hoarding a large amount of resources that in theory could be properly distributed throughout the world leading to significant improvements to quality of life.

It's not.

Why are we creating humanoid robots?

It's not.

To have sex with

The world isn't overpopulated. The problem is a very small amount of people are hoarding a large amount of resources that in theory could be properly distributed throughout the world leading to significant improvements to quality of life.

Disagree. If we wherent over populated we wouldn't feel the need to have animals in such inhumane conditions being farmed for food.

The meat industry doesn't utilize inhumane livestock conditions due to scarcity.

The meat industry doesn't utilize inhumane livestock conditions due to scarcity.

It's not scarcity..... it's there is a lot of mouths to feed.

It's not that either. There's way more animals farmed per human than there were in the mid-1900s, and our population has obviously grown since.

1960s-ish there were around 2 farmed animals per human now we're at around 10+. That's a huge increase.

We eat a lot more. Hence the sterotype us Americans are fat. Not helping my argument but I will say fast-food probably contributes to this too. They waste a lot of food.

Just saying though if the population was far less We could easily get by with all farmed animals being free range.

I mean, americans are fat due to dietary issues caused by decades of the meat industry (and other parts of the food industry like sugar and dairy tbf) lying about their products in regards to how healthy or important they are in a regular diet.

We could easily factory farm less animals and still have more than enough to go around in the US. We don't because of infinite growth and the fact that these companies don't give a shit either way for the health and safety of the public nor the animals they're slaughtering.

Its not??

Ok let me go at another angle. We are destroying the world. We could live as we do with little impact on the world if there wherent so many of us.

You and I aren't destroying the world. Huge corporations are. Hell, the amount of waste a small engineering firm produces most likely dwarfs what your entire neighborhood produces. Now imagine something like Amazon or McDonald's or Walmart or whatever.

A better question is why we feel the need to make robots look human.

...Because it's appealing in a cool sci-fi way?

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.

Clearly, ending world hunger will require more money. Back in July of 2021, U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told us it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.

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

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.

40b per year to end hunger across the ENTIRE WORLD. Some people put it higher, at a whopping 47b per year.
Currently we have 408b per year in food waste, in JUST the US.

Sounds to me like the problem is a blatant misallocation of resources.

Does the reason really matter if those 600k homeless people have basically no power to change it regardless?

Please, by all means, tell us what those homeless people should do to fix said scarcity.

Please, by all means, tell me what makes you think what I said indicates that the homeless are the ones who need to fix it?

What reason do the people with homes have to care?

Let's flip the question around. What're the reasons you think the people with homes have that causes them to not care?

Do you think this problem would exist in the first place if they generally did care?

but sharing is communism, people should just Work Harder if they want to be billionaires

Nope.

The reasons listed are man made problems that have solutions no one in power is willing to do. The root of alot of problems in this world is due to human nature of greed and selfishness.

but sharing is communism, people should just Work Harder if they want to be billionaires