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In reply to the discussion: Baby boomers are killing themselves at an alarming rate, raising question: Why? [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)We can feed everybody with healthy food, we can house everyone in ecologically sound homes, we can provide everyone with the opportunity to be incredibly well educated. We can provide a degree of health care that would be out of the pages of science fiction 40 years ago.
We can provide gourmet foods of incredible variety, we can provide a staggering amount of entertainment and we can provide the electronics to enjoy them on.
I agree that we are poorer in so far that we serve a system that has done away with some of what was customary back in the 70's. But there's no good economic reason for that. We aren't overpopulated, we can produce plenty of energy, we have the water to sustain us.
We lack an electorate that demands sound policies. Our government is enormously influenced by interests that are best served when the population is, on the whole, a little bit desperate.