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its all linked. you can't just gift stuff without destroying much of economic organization and ownership concepts etc. you can't get local production going with
by streamofdigits 5y ago
its all linked. you can't just gift stuff without destroying much of economic organization and ownership concepts etc. you can't get local production going without owning the problem of corrupt local elites (which most likely you educated in your own image) etc...
- walleeee 5y agoYou're right, it's a complex web of incentives, power (im)balances, sociopolitical inertia, legalisms, etc Nonetheless the fact remains that we have consistently produced more than enough food for everybody for half a century and so far have refused or failed to distribute it equitably This is an observation, not a value judgment, I don't have an answer to the question "could it be any other way"
- developer93 5y agoIf the local economic organisation doesn't feed everyone maybe it has issues... It's a question of priority.