There are serious ethical problems with a capitalist system, especially when it comes to the necessities of life, but there's also ample evidence that other economic systems in practice have been just as bad of not worse regarding food security, eg follow the history of the USSR from the Holodomor in the 1930s to empty grocery shelves and bread lines in the 1980s
Every day when I get off work and I go to a local gas station, I see them throw away a bunch of prepared food that passed shelf life. This is a chain, so hundreds of locations do this every day. Tons of food per year, tossed in the trash because it sat in the heat box too long.
Imagine how many people could eat that food. It makes me upset.
"There's an egg shortage!"
> High egg prices send profits at largest US producer soaring more than 700%
Except that's not really true. Western nations donate millions of tons of wheat and other food to poor nations and those hit by drought and other natural disasters.
https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/1-millionth-ton-american-wheat-relief-yemen/
Food production is one of the very few things the US government has been handling well. We give out tens of billions in subsidies to farmers every year to artificially inflate the food supply and have a nationwide SNAP program to help low income families afford food. As a result, we produce far more food than we actually need and far more than we would in a free market, allowing the US to be a major exporter of food globally and ensuring we have enough redundancy built into our food supply that the US will be the last country to starve in a famine
Automation can conquer scarcity and reduce the amount of labor needed. People starve because we don't take steps to ensure our man-made economy doesnt suffer even a single dollar loss.
I really don't get why we don't have "meal bars" or "human food" yet. Something that covers all basic calorie and nutritional requirements, can be mass produced, and easily stored at room temperature. Like "dog food" but for humans.
The real choice should be a normal meal or a "meal bar", not a normal meal or starving.
Under "-isms": "-isms" must manufacture "it" to justify their existence.
'There is a man, a certain man And for the poor, you may be sure That he'll do all he can Who is this one, who's favourite son
Just by his action has the traction Magnets on the run Who likes to smoke, enjoys a joke And wouldn't get a bit upset if he were really broke
With wealth and fame He's still the same I'll bet you five you're not alive If you don't know his name'
Anything is done to make profit. Otherwise people wouldn't have desired a salary increase. Not selling food is not profitable, so food producers don't want people to starve, they want food to be sold. People can starve if they have no money, which should be solved by the government, or they can starve because there is no enough food in the country or region, which should be solved by the government too.
When its not profitable to feed people, we let them starve
As opposed to our hunter gatherer days, or subsistence agriculture days, where everyone just lounged around leisurely? Name one time in human history where life was not filled with hard work. You just said it yourself: our labor has conquered scarcity. Labor! I fucking hate this meme, jfc.
