- Ensuring every American child has three healthy meals a day.
- Universal low cost childcare/paid maternal leave and prenatal care.
- Sufficient stockpiles of transformers and conventional munitions to deter an aggressor. This prevents stepping on to the first rungs of the nuclear escalation ladder.
- Fully domestic weapons system component supply chains.
- More places for people to live/internal mobility.
Each of these problems is, hard, has unambiguous positive outcomes for society that enhance national security and nice downstream effects for human dignity. They’re all throw-money-at-it-to-solve problems. No one has found them interesting enough.
I thought Casey Handmer’s post on challenging problems was a better shove. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/25/you-should-be-...
Also want to credit what Mark Cuban is doing with CostPlusDrugs, which is boring, difficult and requires someone as rich as him to improve peoples’ lives.