intuits how to solve world hunger

The whole system was broken, and something needed to be done about it. I wasn't stupid enough to think that there was a simple solution; if there was, somebody would have already done it. When something was truly simpler and easier than previous ways, it tended to get adopted quickly. However, seemingly simple solutions often had hidden downsides that kept them from being implemented.

People are hungry in Africa?

Give them food and clothing. Unfortunately, free food and clothing meant that local farmers and clothes makers were put out of business. This meant that the next year there wasn't enough food and so people were hungry, creating a never ending cycle.

In the days of British rule over India, administrators had been worried about the cobra problem in Delhi. They put out a bounty on Cobras, but the numbers never seemed to go down. They learned that people were farming cobras for the bounties. When they removed the bounties, the Cobras were worthless, and so they were now dumped out on the street, resulting in many more cobras.

Human nature was the hardest variable to deal with, and so simple mathematical models wouldn't work unless they took that into account.

I let my mind wander about possible ways to change society so that this crap wouldn't happen anymore. I could see some things that could help, but nothing could be done without influence; political, economic, or at the very least a cult of celebrity. The strongest cape in the world couldn't change the hearts and minds of the people without some of these kinds of influence. No cape was capable of simply mastering the entire population; that was what would be required to truly reform society easily, and at that point, it wasn't really society anymore.

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