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There's nothing wrong with a healthy profit margin, per se. The potential problem here is that we have a de facto monopoly in many regions which controls acces
by dan_quixote 4y ago
There's nothing wrong with a healthy profit margin, per se. The potential problem here is that we have a de facto monopoly in many regions which controls access to FOOD.
- noasaservice 4y agoIf it gets too bad, that's how you end up with riots, local politicians dead, buildings torched, etc. Food riots are not something you fuck with.... If history has anything to say about that. I don't think we've seen that scope here in the US... Yet. But given the number of guns, "it's a when, not an if" if the politicians allow extreme food scarcity to happen in a wide area.
- themitigating 4y agoPoliticians allow? Not the business? The calls for government regulation by the same gun toteing people who constantly complain about big government is so confusing.
- datavirtue 4y agoMy senical take on food stamps has been one of politicians feeding the poor to prevent reality. In the US you are talking about 40+MM people who cannot afford to feed themselves. If half of them missed a few meals all of our other problems would disappear under the ensuing sea of shit.
- polynomial 4y agoCorrect. It matters less how healthy/nutritious the food actually is, full bellies tend to keep revolutions at bay.
- noasaservice 4y agoYep. The Romans figured it out over 2000 years ago. panem et circusensus (bread and circuses)
- hellojesus 4y agoIs there a way in which the monopoly is causing food to be denied to individuals? The way I see it is that any food desert either exists because it is not profitable or because nobody has taken the initiative to offer a profitable service. Obviously I could be wrong, but I have a hard time seeing how a megacorp is denying access to food.