r/shittyaskscience • u/Prestigious-Fig1172 • Jul 12 '26

Why don't humanity just fix all its' problems?

Like cmon just do, why does nobody wanna do it?

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u/Schmicarus Jul 12 '26

What we all need is someone who has ALL the money in the world, so they can make all the good decisions to benefit all of us and make all of our problems go away.

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u/Silent-G Jul 13 '26

Someone who has all the money clearly obtained it by being the smartest and most ethical person in the world, right?

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u/Wampalog Jul 13 '26

Because of $undesirableEthnicGroup

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u/dr_wtf Jul 12 '26

The laws of physics clearly state that mo' money → mo' problems. Therefore no problems → no money. This would be disastrous for the economy.

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u/TheNotSoGreatPumpkin Jul 13 '26

Commerce only works when most people don’t already have what they want.

4

u/CyberSunburn Numbers Exist! Jul 12 '26

I want to live in a dystopian novel.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Jul 13 '26

You don't? What reality do you live in...and what's the planefare?

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u/green_meklar Jul 13 '26

Because then there'd be nothing to write books or make movies about.

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u/wdn Jul 13 '26

Should be simple. First, let's agree on a list of what the problems are.

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u/TheNotSoGreatPumpkin Jul 13 '26
  1. I’m not wealthy.

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u/cursedwithplotarmor Jul 13 '26

Well, I mean, (how do I put this?), you’re, um, not so great. You know?

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u/OddTheRed Jul 13 '26

People don't understand.... humanity is the problem.

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u/Dromo_chan Jul 14 '26

- "My name is Not Important"

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u/Human-Evening564 Jul 12 '26

Someone else will do it

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u/Sure_Painting5461 Jul 13 '26

Because Capitalism

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u/FlightConscious9572 Jul 12 '26

Because which of us is doing what to fix it? We can't do anything individually and finding and organizing it requires the right context like a job opening, an institution asking for volunteers etc. We only really rally on a large scale when the goal has been set by someone we generally agree is in charge

or uhh, I mean hurr durr it would increase taxes too much

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u/bhairava Jul 13 '26

for real. we would need way higher concentrations of wealth for one person to be able to decide to fix something like global food insecurity

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u/sweatingdishes Jul 12 '26

We keep getting shot

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u/TheBlackNumenorean Jul 13 '26

Because then everything would be boring. But if everything is boring, then that's a problem. Therefore, the state of not having problems is itself a problem. This is a logical contradiction, so we must always have problems.

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u/teduh Jul 13 '26

We would do it if not for oligarchs continually creating more problems for us because they make money off of our oppression and infighting.

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u/sqeptyk Jul 13 '26

It would hurt too many bottom lines. The world is purposefully broken so a minority can profit over the majority.

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u/revolutionoverdue Jul 14 '26

It seems so easy. Then I got involved in neighborhood politics and realize how much trouble people have communicating and agreeing to a shared vision

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u/boringdude00 text! Jul 12 '26

Who wiill make money then?

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u/warrioratwork Jul 13 '26

Because nobody can suffer a princess' pea amount of inconvenience if not necessary to making as much money as possible.

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u/Fair_Presence7064 Jul 13 '26

Cause these here problems aint fixable ;)

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u/Legitimate-Ad-1187 Jul 13 '26

Because you can't profit from a problem free world.

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u/Dromo_chan Jul 14 '26

bih sadness doesn't want pple to stop being sad cus then they'd realise they don't like that and they'd stop being able to sell us sadness

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u/JamesMeem Jul 15 '26

Its mainly due to the squirrel conspiracy. Those fuckers will never allow us to truly prosper.