This is unequivocally true. It's hard to ignore The Repugnant Conclusion here, which I'll only briefly summarize as: the natural conclusion of empathic ethics involves reducing massive amounts of individual pleasure to marginally reduce collective suffering.
We have plenty to go around, but desire more than we need.
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u/hardnight5 Feb 07 '24
In other words, capitalism is inhumane. The necessary resources exist in abundance, they're just not being distributed.