> I wonder how 6 billion other people manage to eat. Four billion of the top six billion live relatively very poorly. Out of the 7.88 billion, the bottom two

> I wonder how 6 billion other people manage to eat. Four billion of the top six billion live relatively very poorly. Out of the 7.88 billion, the bottom two billion live in such horrid conditions as to have no regular access to fresh drinking water, routine medical care or indoor toilets at home. The majority of all people on the planet still don't have access to functional indoor toilets at home, or otherwise have sanitary toilets at home. Nearly one billion people are still open deficating as a routine. Did you know 35-40% of Laos households have no toilets? Information provided by UNICEF. I'm willing to bet the majority (not all) of people on HN are oblivious to the actual state of the rest of the world, specifically the bottom four to five billion or so, and just how poorly they live day to day. So to the question, how do they manage to eat? Food insecurity is still a top concern for the bottom half of the world's population. Four billion people roughly. And for the bottom couple billion people, it's a severe day to day concern. It's such a serious problem on an ongoing, constant basis that a single war between Ukraine and Russia, is enough to put the basic food security of billions of poor people at risk.