Http and the internet is also a made up concept that has not actual value outside of what we place in it.
Conversations get no where if you're going to talk nonsense.
We don't (feed and house everyone) because the people who grow and distribute food need to get paid.
Australia has public healthcare and public housing. I myself am a beneficiary of that, as my parents were homeless. I got out of the cycle because there's things there that helped me. But I am 1-in-a-1000 case.
It's not "give them more" that's needed, there's many factors in play. Drugs, mental illness, and even the mentality and language around it.
Everyone I knew in homeless shelters as well as my family (except me) were either completely ignorant of how money works, or staunch communists who didn't believe in working for the man, with drugs and illness mixed in.
The point in saying money is a made up construct is that, well, yeah, communism. With infinite possibilities of products and 8 billion players, capitalism, as a way to distribute the collective output of humanity just makes sense. But where there's misery, destitution, and hopelessness, money's just a made up concept and we could make things so much better just by flipping a couple of bits in a database somewhere to create money out of thin air and fund soup kitchens and homeless shelters. Of course we won't and can't actually do that because so many reasons, but if you look past money, and see that its just some system we came up with one day, I fantasize about other solutions to the problem of distribution with the technology we have available to us today, that we didn't have 50 or 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 years ago.
Conversations get no where if you're going to talk nonsense.
We don't (feed and house everyone) because the people who grow and distribute food need to get paid.
Australia has public healthcare and public housing. I myself am a beneficiary of that, as my parents were homeless. I got out of the cycle because there's things there that helped me. But I am 1-in-a-1000 case.
It's not "give them more" that's needed, there's many factors in play. Drugs, mental illness, and even the mentality and language around it.
Everyone I knew in homeless shelters as well as my family (except me) were either completely ignorant of how money works, or staunch communists who didn't believe in working for the man, with drugs and illness mixed in.