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It's like global malnutrition/hunger, it's not that we don't have enough food (I believe total global calorie per capita per day output might be significantly above the recommended 2,500 or so calories); it's the distribution where the problem lies.
We absolutely have the resources to solve those distribution issues, there just isn't an economic incentive to allocate them that way.
Yup, distribution as in social choices around allocation strategies as opposed logistics (which is mostly solved, some bottlenecks do exist though).
Which to OPs point is a socio-political problem. We have the technology and means to distribute it globally, or ensure it’s created closer to the need, it’s just not being done.
Except we still can't solve this in the US, where that distribution is orders of magnitude easier
We can, the ruling class just chooses not to