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Didn't that happen during most/all of history? There was never much of a problem growing more food, there just wasn't any reason to. In Victorian England for e
by spwa4 9mo ago
Didn't that happen during most/all of history? There was never much of a problem growing more food, there just wasn't any reason to.
In Victorian England for example, it would have been easy to grow way more food and build way more housing, the government used violence to prevent it to enforce property rights of huge landowners (that then lost anyway, well, except the royal family of course)
- fluoridation 9mo agoRe-read what I said. >People starving en masse [...] despite there being plentiful food Not "despite there being plentiful food production capacity". No, it has never happened that people starved in great numbers while the food stores were replete. That's a fantastical scenario. Famines only happen when there is no food, or no food nearby. Nature abhors a vacuum, so if you have hungry people on one side of a wall and food on the other, the wall will tend to become permeable until equilibrium is achieved. Money and violence (or aversion to it) are not factors in that equation.