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> At some point, the masses won't have any economic power anymore, and billions of meatbags will be left to starve. In some ways this is already underway. Very
by unoti 11y ago
> At some point, the masses won't have any economic power anymore, and billions of meatbags will be left to starve.
In some ways this is already underway. Very few of the people in the world have any economic power, and the proportion is shrinking. We have the ability to food all of the world, or at least much more than we do. Mankind has a rich history of moneyed interests letting those with no economic power starve.
- PavlovsCat 11y agohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/world-hunger_b_1463429.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/world-hunger... > Hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity. For the past two decades, the rate of global food production has increased faster than the rate of global population growth. The world already produces more than 1 ½ times enough food to feed everyone on the planet. That's enough to feed 10 billion people, the population peak we expect by 2050. But the people making less than $2 a day -- most of whom are resource-poor farmers cultivating unviably small plots of land -- can't afford to buy this food.