Space Bobby knows.
23Space Bobby is tanning.
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The milks about to go bad. And there it goes...
5You make the same profit selling food to a starving person or a full person, but the starving person has a higher willingness to pay. The issue WOULDN'T be distribution if it wasn't for wealth and income inequality.
Wealth and income inequality can be fixed in Democratic Capitalism, you just vote for a tax that is distributed to the poorest people. We just haven't done that to the degree necessary to solve this problem.
If you think about it, for food, you would sell more if there was less inequality and you could sell to more people at the same price. So if there WAS some all powerful Food Capitalism Cartel they would be in favor of something like a wealth tax to fund a UBI.
5Literally all arguments against UBI are based down to "but, but- The workers will have a leverage!"
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Dangit Bobbuh
4That's my [work product]! I don't know you! 🦶🔩
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Not entirely true. The whole 3 missed meals from anarchy is kept up to keep the masses satiated.
1Maybe we should blanket subsidize groceries?
0Kind of weird that in the last 100 years nearly all the worst famines occured it communist countries.
-13Except that’s not true? China had much worse famines before the communist revolution, and both China and the USSR never had a famine after the ones you are thinking about.
Meanwhile, we hear every 5 years that hundreds of thousands of people will die of hunger on the Horn of Africa, that millions of people are food insecure at the seat of capitalist power (the US, UK etc.). We see breadlines in the UK, families going hungry because of foodstamp cuts.
And then you see Vietnam, China, Cuba… and they have eliminated famine. Not hunger, but famine. Meaning there are no food insecure people. The USSR had done the same before it collapsed. People in the USSR had better food security than people in the US after the 50s.
You basically don’t know what you’re talking about and are just repeating propaganda points from the Cold War. It’s vibes based ideology, no facts or science.
22ROFL nothing what you said is remotely true lol
Saying people in the ussr had better food security than people in the USA in the 50s hahahahahaha
Tankies....lol
4Famine killed over 80millions. How you gonna explain that?
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I would suggest not drawing the line between capitalist corporate societies and authoritarian communist dictatorships. Not every message needs to be about government models.
I take a message like this to start a conversation about cooperation instead of greed. Conceptually, I don't see it scaling to 8 billion people.
But the great thing is that we can all individually make the choice to operate this way within our smaller communities, and offer support to those in need when we can afford to. You can even scale this concept down to your family or your team at work. Cooperation can convert certain resources away from being a fixed-sum game.
20There's a larger issue of paltering within the previous statement in that it artificially limits the time span under scrutiny and to the headline famines (rather than sum totals) to railroad a specific political inference in service of an anti-collectivist meme.
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Hunger in capitalism is not about famines, it's about mass produced cheap food full of sodium, sugar and chemicals, yes people are feed but at the cost of obesity and other health problems, it's about farmers pushed to plant specific crops to the detriment of the environment and the land, pushed to buy seeds from Monsanto and punished if they dare to plant their own crops.
People still are going hungry in the world, but not we're you can see it, and you will never see it, in your bubble of lights and advertisment.
16Hunger in capitalism is not about famines
I think this pretty much sums up capitalisms’s relationship to food. Hunger in capitalism is a word we use to describe people being driven, because hunger in capitalism is not about famines.
I’m glad we agree on the basic facts here.
2No, people here can't even afford that garbage. It actually is more economical to buy unprocessed vegetables, beans, meats, fruits and to just cook your own food.
The only feasible way to participate in the economy is to not be dependent on it to survive.
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try to convince all manufactures to stop selling. If won't happen, because of huge profits that follow deficit
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0You're absolutely right, it's because no one is motivated to do the unenjoyable work
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