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The problem is conflating societal development with economic growth. Do the rhetorical people in the GP comment living in subsistence farming need money, or jus
by delecti 7y ago
The problem is conflating societal development with economic growth. Do the rhetorical people in the GP comment living in subsistence farming need money, or just food? We grow more food than we need, and if we as a species chose to allocate those resources as they were needed, we could feed everyone. Instead, consumers which are unprofitable to provide food to are left to fend for themselves. Crops regularly go to waste due to lack of demand from customers who can pay.
- VMG 7y agoMaybe they need medicine, cars and a computer to write HN comments as well? Or is that just a privilege for us here?
- zajio1am 7y agoSocietal development is more or less limited by economic growth. We grow more food that we need due to past economic growth, without it almost everybody would be subsistence farmer, like they were couple hundred years ago.