[moistoreos]

You could literally eliminate homelessness, world hunger, and fully pay health care costs in that same timeframe with much less cash.

[exolymph]

Homelessness and world hunger are not bottlenecked by money. There's a stronger case for healthcare, but that's also substantially a political issue.

[llbbdd]

There's a stronger case for world hunger being bottlenecked than healthcare. World hunger is a logistics problem now, but no amount of money lets you print doctors.

[codyb]

Fully pay health care costs for _who_ for four years with 1 trillion dollars?

Doesn't America alone already spend 2 or 3 trillion a year on healthcare?

[bigyabai]

> Doesn't America alone already spend 2 or 3 trillion a year on healthcare?

There's a huge difference between "paying for healthcare" and "paying a healthcare provider" here in the United States. Oftentimes the latter has 2 or 3 additional zeroes attached.

[whodidntante]

America spends $5T on healthcare per year.

That is twice as much per capita as our "peer" nations (UK, France, Canada, Germany, etc) and we have poorer outcomes.

[wilg]

If that's true, all you have to do is convince other people that it's true and they can just vote for someone to deploy that money. Don't need to wait for someone else to do it.

[vbezhenar]

Cash is just paper. You can't eat paper.

[beeflet]

Time is money. the investment of time and resources spent on AI could be spent producing food or healing people.

Not that I think we should, but the "Cash is just paper" attitude makes no sense. If it's just paper, how is OpenAI training AI using just paper?

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Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods and Services

[walkabout]

You can't eat AI, either.

Yet another hidden benefit of a human workforce, that AI can't match.