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I keep saying this to friends whenever we debate capitalism and socialism.
If every human on the planet was given enough food, shelter, health care, and a full education for the first 20 years of their lives ...... we'd probably cure most diseases, eliminate most or all cancers, bring global warming under control, build entirely new technologies for just about everything and start inhabiting space.
Instead we have about 2,000 billionaires who use their wealth and power to not allow anyone to do anything, about a billion people barely getting by and seven billion with hardly anything at all. And we wonder why our world is falling apart.
I think that might be a bit too optimistic re: cancer. Cancer can happen just through normal cellular division in your body, and the older you get the likelier it is that it just happens randomly. This is independent of environmental factors, which certainly don't help but aren't the cause of all cancers.
You’re thinking about it like cancer ceases to exist, but it’s more likely that we discover super early detection and non-invasive elimination.
Let’s use use the metaphor of a lawn that becomes overgrown by weeds. It’s difficult to control the entire ecosystem that contributes to the lawn, but if we’re able to detect a single invasive seed as it takes root, we could pluck it before it sprouts, let alone spreads. The lawn will quickly recover from a few blades of grass being removed. The longer it goes unmanaged, the more drastic measures and larger swaths must be killed to stop the weeds from overtaking the lawn.