• SpaceBar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      This is not unchecked capitalism, is capitalism working perfectly as intended and there’s no other way.

      • Bautznersenf@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        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.

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          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.

          • Bautznersenf@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            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.