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The contradiction between plentiful global food supplies and widespread malnutrition and hunger arises primarily from food being considered a commodity.
When it's profits at all costs, this is what you get - unchecked capitalism and mass inequality.
Yep. Just look at the bakery section of Walmart. Most of that gets thrown away, but it's more profitable to charge high prices and sell very little than to sell a lot at a lower price.
This is what we get for putting wealth on a pedestal and breeding for greed.
Not disagreeing that a lot is wasted, but that's just not true. It all gets donated unless it's unsalvageable, which is not very common.
Idk why the downvotes, I'm just correcting it with facts lol.
This is not unchecked capitalism, is capitalism working perfectly as intended and there's no other way.
What are you guys on??? People aren't going hungry in capitalist countries. If you checked were all the famines were happening last century and this century, it was not in capitalistic countries.
hmmm its almost like capitalist countries exploitation of non capitalist countries might have something to do with it.
Also that doesnt explain why people still starve to death in capitalist countries.
dumbass
Why do you think that happens bro? Why do you think people in those wonderful nations have such high living standards? Because they live off the backs of the exploited.
Countries that have mass starvation or mass hunger are plagued by corruption and war. North Koreans are not starving because south Korea is a capitalist country, but because it's ruled by a spoiled brat.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QR2yyWRYWw
The image of a thriving society that's not starving. Please do the world a favour and lobotomize yourself so that at least you will say less stupid things than with frontal lobe.
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You live in a different universe if you think homeless camps in Atlanta are comparable to famines in north Korea or Ethiopia.
You're attacking Africa now, wow, you must thrive on seeing other people suffer.
The United States is the wealthiest country in the history of the world and yet somehow manages to have more people doing slave labor (incarcerations for minor nonviolent crimes), more children starving, more violent crime, and more homelessness than almost any other modernized western nation. That’s not the sign of a system that works, and it doesn’t work because despite being wealthy as a group, individually Americans are divided into haves and have nots. Those that have HAVE EVERYTHING and do ANYTHING to maintain the status quo by tricking a lot of the have nots, statistically have nots like you, into believing this is the natural order of the world.
You are not a serf, you are not a slave, you are a human being deserving of a reasonable quality of life and so are the other 99% of Americans that are deprived of a respectful life because 1% of the people suck away wealth and vitality like vampires.
You're right. The USA has plenty of wealth and resources and just chooses to let its people starve rather than helping them. Those other countries don't have that luxury.
Are you kidding? People go hungry constantly in capitalist countries, it's just perhaps people you are told not to care about.
Food bank usage has soared, which doesn't solve the problem, but simply temporarily alleviates it for those who have access to food banks. Many places don't have food banks accessible, and if you don't have transportation, getting to the nearest is not always feasible.
I have first-hand experience of going hungry, being in a capitalist country. To pretend it doesn't happen is to be blind and ignorant.
There are people who are hungry in the fucking USA. School kids literally can't eat lunch.
How do you explain the decrease in hunger over the last several decades? Did the profit motive just come up during the pandemic?
Not sure if you are posting in good faith or not, but a decrease in hunger does not mean there is no hunger in the world.
As if there was no hunger in the world before capitalism...
As if people like you don’t have a ring of shit around their necks from their heads being lodged up their asses
A decrease in hunger does not mean there is no hunger in the world.
Really strange what-about-ism on your part. Kind of low effort.
There's no whataboutism going on here. You need to check what that term means.