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I wondered about that too when I first saw it a year or so ago.

But apparently it's an anonymous internet comment.

https://medium.com/incendiary/poverty-exists-because-the-rich-cannot-be-satisfied-c65a6119ab69

It's to the point right now that a young person 20 years of age could spend a decade just watching all the old classics from the past 80 years to enjoy great films. If they stopped making movies tomorrow, there's more than enough content now for people to watch.

My wife wants to keep watching the latest stuff but if it were up to me, I'd just take the time to watch at least all of the AFI top 100 films.... last I checked I think I've only seen about 30 of them and I thought I watched a lot of films. My last rough count of watched films that I could list was over 1,500 films. And I still have a waiting list of hundreds more I want to see.

I'm a Trek fan and I thought I watched lots but I've only seen about half of all the TV series and most of the films.

That's also not counting all the other TV series I'd like to see from the past ... MASH, All In The Family, Adam's Family, The original Batman series, The Munsters, X Files, Walking Dead, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Office ...... and on and on

If my spouse wasn't so stuck in watching the latest stuff I'd probably be happy just spending my time catching up on everything I wasn't able to see for the past 30-40 years.

Miss Klatch doesn't seem to know about snatch

Always found it fun to see that one of the few prominent black characters of the franchise was also the one to permanently die.

Meanwhile the worst most evil and disgusting old white guy keeps getting defeated and killed but never dies. Palpatine is like the Star Wars Mitch McConnell.

Can openers to get to the beans inside

Human greed is the common point of failure in any of societal systems. In any system ... capitalism, socialism, religious, commune, authoritarian ... the common thing that holds it together is concentration of power. The problem that it suffers from is ... concentration of power.

No matter what group you create, power eventually gets concentrated to smaller groups of people and it only attracts a certain group of individuals who only understand the need to want power and control over everyone and everything to the detriment of everything else.

Once we find a way to build a societal system that is able to distribute power and keep any one or group of people from dominating everyone else, then we might have a chance of developing a sustainable civilization. In the meantime, no matter what you want to call it or do with it, if the end process just concentrates power to a small group of fallible ignorant humans, nothing will ever work.

"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich."

There is more than enough wealth in any nation and in the world in general to feed, provide health care, even education, shelter and opportunities to every living person on the planet. The problem is not a lack of resources or even limited resources ... it's an imbalance of power and wealth. A small group of individuals own and control everything while the rest of us struggle to maintain the little we have and a good number of us don't even have that.

This isn't a call to revolution or to ask everyone to violently swing to the complete opposite of the political spectrum. We have to create a world and society that is more balanced and equitable to everyone, everywhere .... the poor have to be brought up to living standard that respects their lives and the ultra wealthy have to be brought down to earth to share the excesses they will never use or enjoy.

Education and wealth is known to lower population growth so there is no need to fear monger everyone into believing that we will eat the planet dry if everyone is able to afford a hamburger.

Think of the possibilities of humanity if everyone had an equal (or least a decent) chance of an education and to explore their potential? What do you think would happen to the world if we filled it with doctors, engineers, scientists, researchers, academics, professionals of all kinds of fields? Instead of trying to figure out how to build bigger more destructive, creative and terrible bombs or killing machines ... we'd be building space stations to travel and colonize a planet or harness the power of the sun directly.

We have the potential but we keep getting held back by a small group of people who want to own the entire planet during our short inconsequential lives while the majority of us just accept that as completely acceptable and normal.

I'm indigenous Canadian, brown skinned long haired big tall dark 100% Ojibway Cree on both sides of my family from northern Ontario.

Unless you are white Caucasian, dealing with law enforcement is always a risk. As a teen and young man, I was always a suspect every time I dealt with the police, a criminal that had to prove on my own that I wasn't. And I was one of the lucky ones because I had a lot of older family look out for me. So many of my friends who didn't have the same protection just ended up miserable as they got trapped inside the system. They grew up being treated like criminals that no one was surprised that they became criminals.

There are non-profits around every community and city and settlement pretty much throughout the world ... they're called libraries that house plain old paper books that are more or less free to read for anyone interested.

Most of the useful, relevant, education, informative and useful content we need as individuals is already freely available in open source books and reading material in license free ebooks and websites - the internet archive has a ton of content - wikipedia is also a great resource and if it doesn't have the relevant or objective information you want, it is usually a starting point for the reader to find more.

The majority of the rest of the internet ... I'd say about 80% to 90% of it is just useless mindless repeated, rehashed, reposted content from what is already available in libraries ... or it's just useless entertainment nonsense to fill people's time with bits of information to make us laugh, smile or worry.

What doctor has time to do that? I'm in Canada and I can never trust my doctor to have any conversation with anyone, at any time longer than five minutes at a time for anything.

The best tactic I've found if you want to get anything done for yourself or someone close to you is for you to do the legwork and make calls, contacts and literally hound people to do their job. If no one is there to push things along, no one is going to magically appear to help you ... that is a fantasy that seldom and rarely happens, even in our publicly funded system.

You or someone who is capable should advocate for you every step of the way, otherwise you will just get lost and forgotten in the system ... whether you are in the US or Canada.

Always loved the story of what they saw in the source code of software they used in historic NASA missions from decades past.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/code-moon-landings-released-surprising-hilarious

Turns out, the programmers back then were just as unsure about what they were doing as much as programmers are today ... except the guys back then had computers less powerful than a modern smart watch controlling a missile that was aimed at the moon.