Although it will be technologically and economically possible for everyone to enjoy a standard of living that is high by today’s measures, whether we actually provide this support to everyone who needs it will be a political decision. By analogy, although there are occasional famines around the world today, they are not a result of insufficient food production, or because the secret to good agriculture is being kept in a few elite hands. Rather, famines usually happen because of bad governance or civil war.
