What are some industries that might be better for all of us if they did or made something else?

Tobacco growers already do more (and better) than just growing for the cigarette market. Nicotine-based insecticides are among the safest and most effective that are in current use.

In North Carolina there is a group of farmers that have started growing Hemp again. They sell to companies to make rope, hemp oil and clothing.

We could no longer make swords, but make plowshares instead

(Isaiah 2:4) He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.

@elbanditoroso, how did you know that beautiful sentiment was the theme of my confirmation speech when I was 13?

Full disclosure: My dad wrote it for me.

@Pachy – I was there in the back of the sanctuary, listening to every word.

LOL, @elbanditoroso. Then you must surely have noticed I forgot to say a whole paragraph!

Sixty years later I still regret that.

Banks could put their vast stolen profits to use in fighting poverty.