How would you fix the worlds problems?

[Moneysavvymam]

I think i have it, I really do.
Everyone is using food banks, right? unemployment is rife. Depression, anxiety, suicide. Obesity. Anti social behaviour and crime rates.

Okay. Are you ready?

Community gardens and orchards. Free to pick what you like, children's and adults clubs to teach people when to pick, sow, etc. Not just food but flowers. Trees. Perenials such as rhubarb, kale and others. I really think that it could work.

I saw a TED Talk about a town who has a whole community or people who grow food in random places wherever there is a free bit of grass and I swear to god I think it could work really well.

I actually can't see a problem arising and if the problem is 'the economy' well how? Because when people are struggling to pay for food I really dgaf about the economy.
Allotments are a nice idea but many are full and have waiting lists of Years and years.

We have a couple of small, secret almost community gardens in a few big parks in our city and they are really cute, work well. Nobody ruins them and if someone took all of the cucumbers then there is a spirit of 'well I guess they needed them'. Part of the reward is in the growing and outside space and time.

Also flowers. There are so many people living in tiny flats with no or very little outside space. Wouldn't adding a few flowers be nice? Maybe a pear tree or 2.

Its the good life isn't it? A very frequent dream is packing up and living off the land. Well why not communal land? What good is that piece of grass? Needs cutting, is littered all over and what? Pooed on?

I'm not some radical who will go round digging up peoples gardens or anything but I was thinking about a previous poster who said that they sorted out their communal garden in their flats and only after she made it nice did everyone else start using it. Well wouldn't the same happen everywhere?
People pay money to go to botanical gardens, so there is a market for this (if you know what I mean)

There could be communal run compost bins which would dramatically reduce waste and green house gasses. That compost would mean almost no costs because that's the main one isn't it?
Classes could be held at libraries and community centres about seed saving.
Everyone could save their pot noodle pots and yoghurt tubs for plant pots. Arts and crafts fairs could have children painting them, I just can't see a downside.

That is how I would fix the worlds problems anyway.

I'd get women to run it all.

Women are on average 10% less psychopathic than men and so who knows, if the world was genuinely ran by women maybe there would be less wars and jingoistic bullshit - it will probably ever happen though.

I think it's ultimately power that corrupts certain personality types, not what sex a person is.

Not to say that power balances don't need redressing, in all kinds of ways, all over the world. But I don't think that 'putting women in charge' would automatically solve everything.

Put all politicians worldwide on their countries minimum wage.

Introduce profit share for all companies with more than 50 employees with the board restricted to 5%.

Introduce free contraception for all.

Educate, educate, educate. Free to age 18 worldwide then good on the job training for everyone, university for those who need (not want) a third level education. Ability to return to sponsored education once qualified in a trade or service industry.

@YouJustDoYou

And that’s number 3 - could you explain exactly what having a vagina does for making a better world?

A vagina is not the sum of being female. All of our history, all of our combined experiences, our biological nature, our pure lack of arrogant, fury-filled ego testosterone...Oh, I could.go on. But well done for just reducing us to just our vaginas.

That’s my point. The only thing we have in common is physical.

Women all are all different so to lump them into one homogenous mass is ludicrous. Combined experiences, biological nature (as for arrogant fury-filled ego, you don’t have to be a man for that) - what does that even mean?

[quote Dragonpox]@MatildaIThink no I think there would need to be a transition period where women were the only leaders to redress the last few thousand years and put women on an equal footing. Making it 50:50 men and women straight of the bat means men would still have the sociohistorical power and carry that with them into all decsion making. And let's be honest, we can't fuck it up more than they did can we?[/quote]
The thing is the past is the past, no point dwelling on it and in most ways women are now equals to men in the Western world, most European countries have had female leaders for example. The issue is for the last bit of equality to fall into place it needs men on side, most are, but if you tell them to go away then that won't work. The last bits are cultural and that takes time, but it is going in the right direction.

As an example I am a research scientist with a PhD, heading up projects with budgets that can be in the millions, I am treated the same as my male peers. Yes I am outnumbered by men but that comes down to two primary reasons, historically more men went down the academic route that ends up in research and that fewer girls historically applied for relevant qualifications. Now in my field more women are completing relevant degrees than men, I and several of my male colleagues mentor and we mentor both girls and boys.

I want men and women to be equally valued, I cannot say that is the case if I supported a system which would systematically discriminate against men. I also do not think everything needs to be 50/50 because men and women will make different choices, but I don't think that any girl or woman should not do something because it is "a man's thing".

For one we could listen to System of a down and seek an answer to "Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?".

Bring in presidential or prime ministerial duels I say!
Fancy to annex some part of another country?
Seord fight, bitches!

*sword

If women were inherently better at running the world, you would think that we would have some evidence by now?

@notacooldad

I think even if we had a complete reset and started from scratch exactly the same things would happen. You will never eradicate greed and ego.

This 100%.

I don’t get the idea of women all working together for a better world. Look at AIBU!

@Annoyedanddissapointed

Develop a world-wide education curriculum, which is compulsory for every child until age 16,

Don't want a bun fight, but could we please make sure certain countries are not helping with deciding the curriculum 🙈 there are some in the "developed world" which are not particularly known for good general knowledge....

Well yeah (no bun fight here!) that was sort of why I thought it might be a good idea if the curriculum was strictly fact-based, with an emphasis on the sciences.

I'd ban social media platforms like Facebook, Insta, You Tube etc.

I think they are so harmful especially for young people and cultivate nothing but insecurity and insular thinking.

I also think it's dreadful that a young person can say something stupid on twitter and it has the potential to utterly ruin the rest of their lives.

I'd also introduce some sort of property cap/scale which would limit the amount that a property could be sold for and make more affordable housing available. It's truly vulgar that an ordinary 3 bed house can sell for around £800k in the North London borough I live in.

@Tarcietiger

I'd ban social media platforms like Facebook, Insta, You Tube etc.

I think they are so harmful especially for young people and cultivate nothing but insecurity and insular thinking.

I also think it's dreadful that a young person can say something stupid on twitter and it has the potential to utterly ruin the rest of their lives.

I'd also introduce some sort of property cap/scale which would limit the amount that a property could be sold for and make more affordable housing available. It's truly vulgar that an ordinary 3 bed house can sell for around £800k in the North London borough I live in.

See, with social media I would make it available only over a certain age (eg 25). If someone is over that age, they should be responsible for what they post

Halve the worlds population by eliminating most of the men. Then we can assess what women can do in the absence of inbuilt patriarchal systems. We can reassess in 2000 years, by which time the male population will have recovered.

@Annoyedanddissapointed

For one we could listen to System of a down and seek an answer to "Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?".

Bring in presidential or prime ministerial duels I say!
Fancy to annex some part of another country?
Seord fight, bitches!

Russia, China are the only two countries which have annexed land this century, there have only been three other cases in the last fifty years (Indonesia, Israel and Vietnam). For all the squabbling and wars on TV, Western nations have had fewer casualties in conflict in total in the last fifty years than they suffered on the worst single day on WWI, the world is peaceful by historical standards, war is low down the list of issues we currently face.

@Tarcietiger

I'd ban social media platforms like Facebook, Insta, You Tube etc.

I think they are so harmful especially for young people and cultivate nothing but insecurity and insular thinking.

I also think it's dreadful that a young person can say something stupid on twitter and it has the potential to utterly ruin the rest of their lives.

I'd also introduce some sort of property cap/scale which would limit the amount that a property could be sold for and make more affordable housing available. It's truly vulgar that an ordinary 3 bed house can sell for around £800k in the North London borough I live in.

I disagree. Very strongly. It is an Incredible tool for us away from family and friends.

I would agree with better education agound use and forcing companies to run it better. For example just private accounts from a get go, not public.

@Inextremis yeah, i always thought yhat for example geography is fact based basic curriculum....🙈

@fixeroftheworld

Halve the worlds population by eliminating most of the men. Then we can assess what women can do in the absence of inbuilt patriarchal systems. We can reassess in 2000 years, by which time the male population will have recovered.

So your solution to the evils of the world is a genocide so huge and horrific that it makes the Nazis look like friendly amateurs and where every survivor has to lose dozens of people they love and care about? You think the suriving women will be mentally balanced after seeing their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons executed?

@fixeroftheworld

Halve the worlds population by eliminating most of the men. Then we can assess what women can do in the absence of inbuilt patriarchal systems. We can reassess in 2000 years, by which time the male population will have recovered.

I’m guessing that’s a joke. How many men will you allow every generation?

So your solution to the evils of the world is a genocide so huge and horrific that it makes the Nazis look like friendly amateurs and where every survivor has to lose dozens of people they love and care about? You think the suriving women will be mentally balanced after seeing their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons executed?

Exactly. And posters think that women should rule the world… WTF

But interesting that people are advocating genocide to half the population of the world - reminds me of someone…

Still at least women are apparently less violent

I never knew that so many people on MN were harbouring genocidal tendencies! What a thread!

With all of this population control, who exactly gets to decide who should be "removed" and who gets to stay? And on what grounds?

Don't let any person that seeks power run anything.

Alternatively

Take off and nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure.

@bebanjo

The world is massively over populated. The earth simply cannot sustain this many people. Until the numbers drop to about 1/2 what they are now it’s all just arsing about.

Covid came along, ready to sort out the population of the world, and we interfered as soon as we could. (Yes, I've had my vaccinations.)

@AutistGoth

I never knew that so many people on MN were harbouring genocidal tendencies! What a thread!

With all of this population control, who exactly gets to decide who should be "removed" and who gets to stay? And on what grounds?

I’m loving all these people who want women to rule the world and also genocide. I mean, women wouldn’t fuck it up. Would they?