Re-read what I said. >People starving en masse [...] despite there being plentiful food Not "despite there being plentiful food production capacity". No, it h

Re-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.