A few pretty straightforward and incomplete pro-America “good quests” that the authors fail to mention.
- Ensuring every American child has three healthy meals a day.
- Universal low cost childcare/paid maternal leave and prenatal care.
- Sufficient stockpiles of transformers and conventional munitions to deter an aggressor. This prevents stepping on to the first rungs of the nuclear escalation ladder.
- Fully domestic weapons system component supply chains.
- More places for people to live/internal mobility.
Each of these problems is, hard, has unambiguous positive outcomes for society that enhance national security and nice downstream effects for human dignity. They’re all throw-money-at-it-to-solve problems. No one has found them interesting enough.
Also want to credit what Mark Cuban is doing with CostPlusDrugs, which is boring, difficult and requires someone as rich as him to improve peoples’ lives.
Solving the myriad of social problems has always been the best quest IMO, but you have a vast number of manipulators that have a financial and social incentive to prevent solving these problems because solving any economic/social problems in America starts with effectively taxing the rich so the government can afford these programs. Good luck with that.
- Ensuring every American child has three healthy meals a day.
- Universal low cost childcare/paid maternal leave and prenatal care.
- Sufficient stockpiles of transformers and conventional munitions to deter an aggressor. This prevents stepping on to the first rungs of the nuclear escalation ladder.
- Fully domestic weapons system component supply chains.
- More places for people to live/internal mobility.
Each of these problems is, hard, has unambiguous positive outcomes for society that enhance national security and nice downstream effects for human dignity. They’re all throw-money-at-it-to-solve problems. No one has found them interesting enough.
I thought Casey Handmer’s post on challenging problems was a better shove. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/25/you-should-be-...
Also want to credit what Mark Cuban is doing with CostPlusDrugs, which is boring, difficult and requires someone as rich as him to improve peoples’ lives.