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">When some starve and others hoard food, is property more important than hunger? Yes, because destroying private property rights will lead to further famines.
by ClumsyPilot 5y ago
">When some starve and others hoard food, is property more important than hunger?
Yes, because destroying private property rights will lead to further famines. It's something called second-order effects"
There is this really interesting second order effect I heard about, very few people know about it - apparently masses of starving people might not just quietly watch their family succumb to famine, sometimes they start cutting off heads of whoever is in charge, or just is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- HideousKojima 5y ago>sometimes they start cutting off heads of whoever is in charge I wish they'd actually done so to Stalin, seeing as he was the one in charge and his policies were the cause of the famine. Instead, it seems like the majority swallowed his propaganda blaming the kulaks hook, line, and sinker.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoIndeed, seems like French are better at it and more decisive.
- lucian1900 5y agoOr the white army and the kulaks were indeed to blame and people at the time understood that, while you swallowed propaganda blaming the Bolsheviks.