A couple years ago, I heard that the cost of eliminating world hunger was $30 billion a year. US "defense" spending is at $700 billion currently I believe. And lol @ using the word defense, when it none of it takes place on US soil...everything is initiating offence on foreign soil.
Not sure how many people aren't getting adequate food and water, but one year without making guns, bombs, tanks and fighter jets...would give approximately 23 years of food and clean water...and probably a sustainable infrastructure that could provide it for even longer (water filtration + farming infrastructure). But who needs that when you have the mother of all bombs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Awad_bin_LadenThis man fathered a total of 56 children by 22 wives. Who's going to feed all those beautiful babies?
What if you were one of those babies?
Possibly the same resources that are being invested into building a bomb? I'm not going to defend that man in anyway though...and maybe the point is many would take advantage of the handouts given...which I agree with.
But with technological advancement, at the end of the day...machines or robots will be doing more and more work which will replace human labour and income. The world will have to go in a socialist direction because of this anyways, or you will have to deal with a massive population that cannot support themselves, which will make the aggregate standard of living lower. How happy will you be as a wealthy person getting into your ferrari when there are 10 people starving outside your front door?