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Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? by bloopernova on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:46AM (#37033660)
Apologies for the USA centric views:

Tackling climate change mitigation and remediation.

Getting more people off social media.

Protecting libraries.

Making the police more professional. Raising the bar for police candidates. Stopping the racism and fascism embedded in some police department cultures.

Overhauling the US political system to work for the people rather than the rich.

Protecting the rights of women, including bodily autonomy.

Protecting the rights of queer people.

Protecting the rights of non white people.

Reducing plastics use.

Planting more trees.

Improving housing construction standards.

Giving everyone a permanent place to live.

Decoupling healthcare from employment.

Universal healthcare.

Increasing the number of doctors and nurses.

4 day working week.

Forcing healthcare professionals to work normal number of hours.

Teaching good parenting at school. And various other life skills.

Improving teacher conditions.

Preventing fascism from continuing to rise in America.

Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? by EdTechAndrew on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:48AM (#37033689)
Fantastic list. A lot of each are places anyone can start helping with too.
Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? by androidbishop on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:44PM (#37036968)
I enthusiastically support this list
Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? by toomuchtodo on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:31PM (#37037695)
Would add "encouraging public policy around walkable communities" to your already top notch list. chef kiss
Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? by eldritch_4ier on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:54PM (#37038052)
This list is biased in a few ways, so it’s harder to calm these “major problems” when some of them are just fear mongered out of proportion.

To round it out though, here’s another list:

Uplifting the many men falling out of society

Protecting children and their parental rights

Reforming harmful public sector unions like schools and police

Eliminating systemically racist anti white laws in everything from affirmative action to farm subsidies

Eliminating anti white bias in hiring

Reversing the rapidly declining birth rates

Reducing the normalization of sexual degeneracy from porn addiction to the proliferation of digital prostitution (onlyfans)

Reversing the declining trust in institutions (media, public health, DOJ, etc)

Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? by local_issues on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:44PM (#37038794)
The rise of the far right is in large part due to mainline society failing to "Uplifting the many men falling out of society", "Protecting children and their parental rights", and "Reversing the declining trust in institutions (media, public health, DOJ, etc)"

The Left doesn't believe these are issues, but are instead moral failings or the result of a reduction in privilege by cishet white men. Their statements to that effect have pushed ~a dozen of my friends from D to R voters.

Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? by throw1234651234 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:03AM (#37048384)
At least you are easy to filter, thank you.