OTOH maybe that is why our vending machine is full of unhealthy snacks. :)
+ I have to add problems like these is why companies now give 401ks to employees. Whether you live long or not now is the person's problem and the risk is no longer borne by the company.
If we optimized human life quality globally everyone would get better healthcare etc., but since everyone makes the decisions that benefit them (+family and immediate surrounding), then we end up with worse healthcare for the vast majority of the population.
As such, it should probably be the job of governments (regulation, incentives) to make 'globally' optimized decisions more attractive (centralized healthcare). In a best case scenario at least.
I don't care to be this coarse, but I've been trying for 10 minutes to find a better way of putting it.
When the local maxima and global maxima do not align suffering occurs. This is why evoLuton picks a few broad things on a global scale, but at the local scale thing developed very differently
So if I want to help that party to continue going on by voting it it is the same than giving them ~4 euros (money that come from my taxes).
Nothing different from crowdfunding, but public.
What's the problem?
It's harsh, but for cities or even countries the bottom xx% is a net drain.
Similar to how the Aztec Gods demanded blood sacrifices, from the best & the brightest of the population.
What I remember is that their criteria to choose who were they throwing to the volcano was very varied and nonsensical. Like "children with more than one hair swirl" (not sure about last word, hope it is clear).
And sometimes they didn't use a volcano but just remove the skin of victimes and store them in a cave. They will use the skins to dress up and dance a month later.
In any case, victims were members of their society. It was maybe an honor. Yeah, colonizers were brutal, but it seems it was the state of the art back then...
BTW, having two of those was a sign of luck, or so I was told.
One can argue that the America is conquered by Globalist institutions such as foreign banks.
I'd say it comes down to good management (as with anything) and priorities. A bad government is going to mismanage it and spend more on the military or other priorities, borrow money to make up the deficits and then of course everyone loses faith.
It's as if people exist only to make money, actually making people's lives better be damned. I doubt people will tolerate such a vampiric system for much longer, especially if it doesn't feel the need to conceal it's fangs anymore, and what comes afterward keeps me up at night.