I just watched “the Martian” - Humanity saving a stranded astronaut
It’s nice seeing so many people trying to save one person.
The whole world is rooting for NASA to save him.
They’re deploying all they can.
They’re spending a lot.
I’m just wondering…
Why don’t we have so many people trying to save the thousands dying everyday from preventable causes?
I mean sure, go try and save the guy, but he knew it could happen.
It makes me think of the quote:
“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”
from William Gibson
Modern civilisation is just really bad at prioritizing what resources should be allocated to (well who am I kidding: the civilisation throughout all of history)
Maybe we should try to rethink where we currently allocate resources, before deploying more on other things.