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You've never been to war, eh?

> Define 'comfortable'.

Hot and cold running water, a toilet, shower, electricity and internet, shelter, medical care (not dying of easily curable diseases, for example.)

Really, IMO, the baseline is what folks at the Google campus have. If everyone in the world had that QoL as a baseline I think we could declare victory and go home.



the soviet union provided this level of 'comfortable', decent basics for literally everyone . somehow its people didn't 'declare victory and went home'


So, your answer to the original question

> Why not simply make sure that life is comfortable on the tail end of the of the curve and call it a day?

Is that "that's not enough"?

Where are you going with this?




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