Efficient distribution of labour my ass

Easy there OP, do you think food is some kind of "human right" or something? Before you know it, people will be saying housing is too.

During the Great Depression the federal government literally paid farmers to not harvest crops because allowing that much food to be produced would dilute the market and bring down crop prices.

During the Great Depression.

A time when people were starving and there were virtually no forms of welfare.

When millions were thrust into poverty for reasons entirely out of their control.

The federal government paid farmers to create less food to protect profit margins.

In today's world every person who starves, who does without, who suffers unnecessarily..

Does so only because someone wants it so . Not because there is not enough

It was rather radicalizing finding out that the world makes three times as many calories per person than is necessary to feed every person on this planet, but because we're idiots living in a class society in the year 12024 HE, luxury restaurants regularly dump slightly subprime ingredients in the trash while thousands starve.

Existence is pain.

It, unfortunately, is an efficient distribution of labor, at least relative to other systems. Not because wasting food for profit isn't fucking heinous, but because the mobility of investor capital and responsiveness of market prices is less inefficient than reciprocal economies or central planning.

However, we are at a point in human society where raw efficiency is no longer the bottleneck for our quality of life. Capitalism was an ugly solution to a real problem, but we can probably bid it farewell at this point, if only we can dislodge the elites who benefit from perpetuating it.

Damn it, Bobby Capitalism.

Couldve made the point just as well without the nekkid blue bobby

That goes beyond capitalism. People are just selfish. The hoarding of wealth was a thing way before capitalism. I think the left sort of shoots itself in the foot by obsessing over capitalism and ignoring the much deeper cause of a lot of societal ills. Being evil is part of human nature, just as much as being benevolent is.

Of all the meme images to use, Dr Manhattan would know that it isn't Capitalism manufacturing scarcity, Capitalism is just indifferent to scarcity.

Yeah I don't think talking about food production and distribution is a good method to promote socialism given how many people starved in socialist countries.

Seems to me this would be a subject socialists would want to avoid.