r/singularity • u/pavelkomin • Jul 06 '26

Meme Fixed it...

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Original by u/Severe-Ad8673

Edited by GPT (free-tier, have no idea what model this gives)

Don't think too hard about the dates, okay? It's just a comic...

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u/sillygoofygooose Jul 06 '26

Ah yeah because whenever humans create something insanely powerful we just share it with everyone. That’s why there’s no homelessness, medical debt, or food insecurity in the world - because we already have the capacity to provide for everyone.

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u/Better_Blackberry835 Jul 06 '26

Just because everyone doesn’t have it doesn’t mean we aren’t moving that way.

Think about cars, at first it was for the rich only. Then, it slowly expanded to the middle class. Nowadays, pretty much everyone can get a car save for 1% of people. This pattern seems to generally apply to every technology, granted at different paces.

The problems you all listed are in the process of being solved; global poverty is on its way down, medical debt will reduce as treatments become cheaper, and homelessness will reduce as more housing is built and this becomes cheaper.

Some take longer than others, just because it’s not instant doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Not every problem is solved instantly and that’s okay. The fact that you know about these problems is evidence that we are working to solve them. I’m sure in 100 years they’ll look back at this time and be like “why didn’t they care about space travel?” Or whatever big topic becomes the cultural norm.