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The Benefits of World Hunger
- aliswe 4y agoIs UN trolling?
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoOr hacked?
- tsol 4y ago>Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive. That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work. This feels like a weird take, especially for a UN article. I mean there may be some truth to that, but leave that to the philosophers. What does the UN want me to do with the information that hungry people work harder? How does this help them attain their goals? The part about "hunger makes people willing to work, which is important for people who need cheap labor" also seems similarly strange. It's good for the people in need of labor sure, but they just gloss over the laborers. Surely, their condition matters too
- hansword 4y agoThe article asks you to understand that any successful 'let's end hunger' programme has powerful antagonists, even though they might well prefer not to show their antagonism openly.
- jessaustin 4y agoIt's brilliant, really. Not only do we empathize with the enslaved, but we also see how under capitalism the typical employee differs from them only by degree. Their enemies are our enemies. We have to stop identifying with the reptiles who own and manage the cane fields.
- jamesmh 4y ago404 - here's the original -> https://web.archive.org/web/20220706173519/https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/benefits-world-hunger https://web.archive.org/web/20220706173519/https://www.un.or...
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- shagie 4y agoThe proported author of this does not have that article doesn't have that article his is CV. https://hawaii.academia.edu/GeorgeKent https://hawaii.academia.edu/GeorgeKent There is an article written in 2009 - https://www.academia.edu/24893044/The_Humiliation_of_Hunger_2009 https://www.academia.edu/24893044/The_Humiliation_of_Hunger_... My 0th guess theory is that someone maliciously replaced the 2009 article with the "benefits" one.
- imtringued 4y agoI just read the article and it basically talks about how hungry people let themselves be exploited. How is that a benefit? Forcing companies to compete for scarce labor is a better outcome than having unemployment which props up unproductive companies that engage in low value activities because unemployment is even less productive than wasting people's time on inefficient production.
- dTal 4y agohttps://twitter.com/_UNChronicle/status/1544804375595565056?cxt=HHwWgIC-7aLZn_AqAAAA https://twitter.com/_UNChronicle/status/1544804375595565056?... >This article appeared in the UN Chronicle 14 years ago as an attempt at satire and was never meant to be taken literally. We have been made aware of its failures, even as satire, and have removed it from our site.