{ "id": "version:problem-the-enough-question-v1", "recordId": "problem:the-enough-question", "version": 1, "previousId": null, "adapterVersion": "research-content-v1", "subject": { "type": "entry", "collection": "problems", "frontmatter": { "title": "The Enough Question", "number": 22, "statement": "How much money would it take to fix a specific problem at its source, and is it true that money isn’t the bottleneck?", "progress": "Costed source-level plans for specific problems, judged by independent experts, and a record of what happened when such plans were funded.", "conditions": [ { "collection": "conditions", "id": "symptom-trap" } ], "bounty": "Unfunded. The Question Bounties program will attach prizes once it is funded.", "sources": [ { "title": "Humanity’s Checklist", "url": "https://humanityschecklist.org/", "publisher": "Humanity’s Checklist", "year": 2026, "note": null } ] }, "body": "\n## Why it matters\n\nHumanity’s Checklist points out that hundreds of billions of dollars go to charity every year, and asks what would happen if $5 million, spent correctly, were enough to go after the six sources upstream of every world problem. Charitology treats that as a hypothesis to test, not a slogan. If money really isn’t the bottleneck, the field should find out what is.\n\n## Where to start\n\nPick one problem, write the source-level plan, cost it, fund it and publish what happens, including if it fails.\n" }, "subjectHash": "fea194e60a4adb4fe7472553e3750c59a740bf70db6f7c76ad0ce796a671b781", "authorship": { "state": "unknown", "complete": false, "actorIds": [], "refs": [] }, "sources": [ { "sourceId": "source:current-problems-the-enough-question", "selector": { "kind": "entry" } } ], "hash": "ee0cb55bef111457ab48793164827b68bb12326ba21d6073d26f8934db42bfb7" }