Don't eat the rich, obsolete the rich

So I think it's pretty clear to most of us with empathy, who have been reading books and who have been paying attention for any length of time, where we'd like to get humanity. 

We'd like everybody to have food, water, shelter, and healthcare. We'd like to offer growth opportunity and education to everyone; regardless of their nationality, sexuality, gender expression, disability, skin color, or political affiliation. 

We'd like to protect the weak from the strong, and prevent oppression wherever we see it. 

These are laughably achievable goals. We don't have a proportionally "better" standard of living than we did in the 60s, despite the fact that worker output has nearly septupled that entire time.

There's this impression that if you want to house the homeless, you somehow need to build houses for everybody but in truth, it's not uncommon for thousands of residences to lay vacant or moldering in any major city. 

Or if you want to feed the poor, you need to have enough extra food for everyone everywhere - but western society commonly throws out 30-40% of food imported or produced. Also, and I feel like this is obvious: everybody currently homeless or impoverished has been -somehow- eating enough to stay alive, so clearly that amount of food IS "just laying around" so to speak.

There is absolutely, positively, WAY more than enough for everybody. We've been hemorrhaging resources and squandering human effort for centuries. We fell asleep at the wheel and here we are, right where that usually gets you: the ditch. 

Can we please take our foot off the gas now?