Hi, According to the UN it would take about $40 billion annually to end World hunger. This is about 4% of the more than $1 trillion wasted annually on advertising. I say wasted because only a tiny fraction of people actually buy a product as a consequence of any given ad, ergo, advertising is extremely inefficient, not to mention extremely annoying to the other 99.9% of people who get it uselessly shoved down their throat sideways. A much better system would be a central online repository of product information that one could search for what one wanted. ebay, Amazon and AliBaba, in combination with search engines, are headed in this direction.
Another small percentage of that wasted advertising money would cure all disease. Another small percentage of that wasted advertising money would solve the energy problem, and along with it, Global warming. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk Drive your electric car every second day and recharge it from solar panels on your roof on the alternate days. The other days, drive your spouses car, and do the same with it. "Charge when the Sun shines".
